Articles 2010

AS I SEE IT By Henri Loridans Let’s Get Graphic, Gory and Ghoulish   On Christmas Day 2009 a terrorist aboard an airplane landing in the USA attempted to set off explosives he had stuffed in his crotch. He succeeded in burning himself, but did no damage to the plane or to the other passengers. […]

A Ticket to the Grand Show By Neil McKinnon   When I was young my mother encouraged me to, “Eat up your dinner because millions of people are starving in Asia.” I never questioned the underlying premise and just accepted that stuffing the last morsel of stewed kidney down my throat helped alleviate suffering around

FRONT ROW CENTER By Michael Warren The Boy FriendBy Sandy WilsonDirected by Allen McGill   This is a piece of fluff, to be enjoyed by cast and audience alike. Written in the bleak post-war fifties, The Boy Friend recalls and at the same time parodies a more carefree era when the girls were flirty and

Planting for Future By Judy Baehr Lake Chapala Issues from the Ground Up   For many years Wendee Hill and Marie Pruden, founders and directors of ACÁ, have worked on issues that threaten Lake Chapala and the people who live around it. At the Living Lakes Conference this March, Wendee spoke of the need to

Notes From Nestipac By Phyllis Rauch Did You Know?   As a Lakeside old timer, I often find myself sharing odd (as in varied) pieces of information with recent arrivals to the area. Sometimes ex-pats who have already been here for a few years, are also surprised. Let’s see how many of these facts are

CHILD of the month By Rich Petersen Eber Emmanuel Vilchis López   Niños Incapacitados would like you to meet little Eber Emmanuel Vilchis López. Eber is 18 months old and lives with his family in Ixtlahuacán. He has three siblings: Moisés, Edgar and Clara. His mother, Maria Guadalupe, is a housewife and his father, Alfredo,

Hearts at Work —A Column by Jim Tipton “…human, lovely, and sufficient unto itself.”   As I enter middle age—I turn seventy in two years—I think more and more about relationships of short duration. Most of the people I know well in both Colorado and Mexico have had “one night stands,” so popular in the

A NEW LEASE—on Life! By Judit Rajhathy, B.A., RNCP, D.Ac. Like the Nike Commercial says – Just Do It!   “Are you kidding me? I’m not letting them put a tube up my ass!” “I’m not subjecting myself to such an invasive test!” “To be perfectly honest I am afraid of what they are going