Lakeside LivingBy Kay Davis Phone: (376) 766-4774or 765-3676 to leave messages Email: kdavis987@gmail.com February 2010 Events are listed by date, like a calendar: past events, then those planned for the future. Some organizations offer multiple events/dates, and these items appear toward the end of the column. December 6 at Plaza Bugambilias a photo Exhibit opened […]
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Ask Carolyn By Carolyn Comedo DEAR CAROLYN: I am an eight year old school boy. I was born one month after my parents got married and weighed eleven pounds. I am normal except my right arm is six inches longer than my left. Why? EARLY DEAR EARLY: You may have stretched your right arm
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Welcome to Mexico! By Victoria Schmidt Watch Your Step There’s a joke around town that you can always tell who is a newcomer in Mexico by their injuries. The ankle braces, knee braces, arm splits and, of course, black eyes are dead give-aways. Most often these are injuries suffered by walking the infamous cobblestone
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OF FAITH AND FABLES By Bob Haynes Choosing What We Believe In her book “Dreams Are Whispers from the Soul,” Marcia Wieder said: “All obstacles are either what I refer to as “internal,” something you believe about your life, or they are “external.” If the obstacle is external, we must develop a plan to
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Wondrous Wildlife By Vern and Lori Gieger Birds of a Feather We would like to dedicate this months column to a very dear friend and a true friend of the animals: Linda Wood, a long-time resident of Ajijic passed away Dec. 29th after a courageous battle with cancer. Linda loved all animals but her
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UNCOMMON COMMON SENSE By Bill Frayer Can You Look Outside Your Paradigms? I remember an article written by a physics professor who had included the following question on an exam: “Explain how to determine the height of a tall building with the aid of a barometer.” He presumably wanted the student to use atmospheric
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BRIDGE BY THE LAKE By Ken Masson There is great satisfaction in arriving at and making a contract that none of your competitors in a duplicate event managed to find. Such was the case in this deal played at the Lakeside Bridge Center in Riberas recently. North began proceedings with a bid of 1
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Op-Ed By Maggie Van Ostrand Mexico’s Gift to Opera, Rolando Villazón I don’t know anything about opera, and accidentally proved it to my date a long time ago at a screening of Franco Zeffirelli’s La Traviata. Halfway through the movie, I whispered, “What a rip off. All they did was copy the plot of
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Editor’s PageBy Alejandro Grattan-DominguezGod Bless Our Four-legged Friends The two most often heard complaints by foreigners living here at Lakeside used to be about the callous and sometimes cruel treatment of animals, and the bureaucracy’s fondness of needless paperwork. The latter (as Jesus is said to have remarked about the poor) will perhaps always be
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