August 2025

Peripheral artery disease (PAD), and peripheral venous disease (PVD) are both conditions that involve the vascular system affecting the blood vessels in areas outside your heart and are types of peripheral vascular disease. Arteries and veins allow blood, oxygen, and waste to travel through your body. When arteries don’t work properly, your feet and legs […]

Centro Educativo Jaltepec, a unique technical university for young women specializing in hospitality and hotel management, continues to shine as a space where young women from underserved backgrounds are empowered through professional education rooted in values, service, and excellence. This past spring was marked by a series of powerful events that reflect our mission in

Adelitas Adela Velarde Péres was only 13 years old when she joined Francisco Madero’s revolutionary army. She served as a nurse with such distinction that the Mexican government honored her (finally, a half-century later!) with a pension, a Revolutionary Merit Decoration, and even membership in the prestigious Legion of Honor. She died at the age

Like a Girl I lived in Louisiana as a young girl. Our state license plate proudly proclaimed Louisiana to be the “Sportsman’s Paradise.” It was a man’s state for sure. Men had a Cajun history of fishing and hunting all year long. There was no mention of the role of women on the license plate.

“Get ready! Get Ready! The end of the world is coming!” James Thurber “The Get Ready Man” When I was very young, my grandmother assured me that God would not end the world by means of flood waters again but by fire and brimstone. Grandma was a farmer’s wife and the gentlest of souls. Her

A few weeks ago, I was in a meeting of some columnists from El Ojo Del Lago. One of my colleagues, Jackie Kellum, writes the column “You and Your Doctors Are Your Medical Team.” She mentioned that she was running out of ailments about which to write. I can only say, she apparently doesn’t watch

A Heroine’s Journey The current social system has favored a vertical perspective in which the achievement of goals is emphasized, and the importance of process is sacrificed. Only the result, the product, the visible and tangible material, is valued, not the internal source from which all creative endeavor springs. We must find new ways of

Democracy Is Not a Spectator Sport One of the most difficult things I have had to do this year as Editor is to enforce my own rules about political content in the Ojo del Lago. It has been an ongoing struggle. And I have felt almost complicit in the things that are going on in