November 2024

I remember very distinctly when my father bought me my very first LP. (Do you remember those circular black things that served as our medium for listening to music?) I was about eight years old when my father put this black thing on our record player and suddenly an entire orchestra burst forth from the […]

Don Beaudreau Email: wbeaudreau@aol.com From the Lakeside Living Editor: Please note that deadline for submission of notices about a local cultural, civic, or charitable event is the first day of the month, an entire month BEFORE the article can appear in El Ojo Del Lago. Appropriate notices should include the name of the event, its location,

Remember when birthdays were giddy excitement, party hats and toys, toys, toys? Now they’re like unwelcome reminders of a bill due sooner or later. And given the postmark on my latest birthday, it’s leaning more towards sooner. So, I got to thinking, what’s old? It’s a fallacy to go by our culture’s definition since the

Nicolás Bravo Mercy determined Nicolás Bravo’s fate—mercy he gave, mercy he withheld, mercy he received, and mercy he was finally denied. During the Mexican War for Independence, Bravo fought under Galeana and Morelos. The Spanish viceroy captured his father and promised to release him if Bravo would accept amnesty and cease fighting. Justifiably skeptical of

The topic this month is Lupus. An overview – Lupus is a serious complex disease that occurs when your body’s immune system attacks its own tissues and organs (autoimmune disease). Inflammation caused by Lupus can affect many different body systems including your joints, skin, kidneys, blood cells, brain, heart and lungs. This attack causes inflammation,

I never had a cat. Never wanted one. Still don’t. But three years ago, a stray cat adopted me. I suspect she belonged to the people in a nearby house that was sold and torn down to build a condominium. I imagine the cat had “gone walkabout” the day the family was moving out of

The Art Of Maintenance Long, long ago, when I was an adolescent staring at adults like they held the answers to the universe, I didn’t realize that they knew only a bit more than I did. Times evolve so quickly that we can’t keep up. I stared in awe at my dad shaving, wondering why

“We look at the world once, in childhood. The rest is memory.” Louise Elizabeth Gluck Farm life has always followed the cycle of the seasons. For instance, as I was growing up, June and later in July if there was a second crop was haymaking time. Then, as the intense heat of late July and

Arriving up in Zacatecas (8,148 feet above sea level) for a visit from the coast one June, my husband and I found all the clichés describing high altitude air—cool, crisp, crystalline, effervescent—to be fresh and new. Blocks of the centro looked to have been imported straight from 16th or 17th century Spain, which of course

Over teched Even though I live in Mexico, parts of the United States sneak into my life through my email inbox. For some reason my SPAM filter hasn’t been working very well lately, and I have been inundated with all kinds of offers. I have won contests I never entered. I can order a cure