September 2023

Don Beaudreau Email: wbeaudreau@aol.com The Lake Chapala Society hosts Open Circle every Sunday at 10:30am. This community gathering in Ajijic presents a wide range of topics. Entrance is by the side gate on Ramón Corona, opening at 9:30am. We recommend bringing a hat and bottled water. Check the website for upcoming topics, and make your reservation. […]

Back in 2015, a friend, who is a teacher in Iowa, asked me to do an online interview with her Spanish class describing what it is like living in México. Fortunately, it didn’t have to be in Spanish, because neither I nor her students were quite up to that yet. I prepared a few poster

100+ Dogs Evacuated Due To Wildfire On the afternoon of June 4th, Ranch board member Syd Sullins was visiting with friends when she received several calls about a fire quickly approaching The Ranch. Syd messaged The Ranch board, a few volunteers, and the Ranch staff and headed that way. “It was an extremely hot and

A friend—we met in college—recently retired and moved back to his hometown. Excited about his relocation, he invited me to visit, to see his origins. Jerry and I hadn’t been close as adults. We communicated sporadically and visited each other when convenient, but, for me, it never was a priority. He was, in my mind,

The topic this month is Chronic Kidney Disease / CKD – a condition characterized by a gradual loss of kidney function over time. The difference between Chronic Kidney Disease is that there is kidney damage but they are still able to perform some of its functions, and Renal Failure is the condition when kidneys are

Suleiman Several years ago, my husband and I went on one of those small (50 feet) yacht trips with several other couples. Our destination was Turkey, and from there we were going to sail around outlying Greek islands. We would be gone for over ten days. Our first surprise was that our promised sailboat had

I didn’t get the part I wanted. I blame my mother. I’d decided to audition for the Lakeside Little Theatre’s production of Jesus Christ Superstar, which will run January 26th – February 6th, 2024. With a cast (principals, chorus, dancers, musicians) of more than 40 and a supporting staff of more than 15, it will

EVENT CANCELED Just as Christmas is a celebration honoring the Christ, Michaelmas is an arts celebration dedicated  to the Archangel Michael, and normally held on September 29th in Christian churches around the world. Mexico is no exception. Mexico has at least eighty churches dedicated to Saint Michael. Their location in villages/towns/cities bear the preface, San Miguel—for example,

It was the summer of 1972, and I had been working at Communication Electronics Incorporated (CEI) since the mid-60s. CEI was little known by anyone except the USA Intelligence Agencies, The Department of Defense (DOD), and foreign governments friendly to the USA.  They knew the company as the premier source of spy radios needed in

There are a lot of lonely people out there in the world. And no place is it more evident to me than on Facebook. Now, forget all the new algorithms and changes they have made that are so unpopular. I’m speaking specifically of the friend requests. Many of the friend requests, especially from the military,