OP-ED By Maggie Van Ostrand This is my last column for El Ojo Del Lago. It’s a bittersweet parting because my editor, Alejandro (Alex) Grattan, was the first person to encourage me to turn a writing hobby into a lucrative profession. He did this way back in 1995 by inviting me to become a […]
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Editor’s Page By Alejandro Grattan-Dominguez The Mexican-American Soldier When the United States first entered WWII in December of 1941, there were more than two and a half million people of Mexican descent living in the US, eighty-five percent of whom resided in five states: New Mexico, Arizona, Colorado, California and Texas. But in
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BRIDGE BY THE LAKE By Ken Masson At the duplicate bridge table, it is sometimes advantageous to know the habits of your adversaries in order to garner the maximum number of tricks. In this month’s hand, West was a notoriously light opener who often rushed in where more conservative players feared to tread, causing
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THE WAR OF THE WOLVES One evening an old Apache told his grandson about a battle that goes on inside of people. He said, “My son, the battle is between two wolves inside us all. One is Evil. It is anger, envy, jealousy, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, self-pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies, false pride, superiority,
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WRITING AT THIRTEEN By Maya BarkerAge 13 (Ed. Note: Maya lives in Chapala and is the grand-daughter of longtime Lakeside residents Mark and Adele Cordero. Maya recently read her poem to the Ajijic Writers’ Group and received an enthusiastic response.) So many times in my life People have told me how well I write.
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THE BOGART MYSTIQUE By Alejandro Grattan(Reprinted by Request) One synonym for the word “mystique” is magical, and it is indeed magical that today, some fifty years after his death, Bogart is a bigger star than he was even in his wildly successful heyday during the ‘40s and ‘50s. More amazing is that his fans
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LETTER FOR THE EDITOR Dear Sir: (This is in response to “Thunder on the Right” column (April) by Paul Jackson Mister Jackson, I hate to be the one to disturb you up there in Dallas North, but your article has some loose and loony assumptions. Sorry, Alberta oil sands are too costly, too polluting,
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GOING ROGUEAn American Life By Sarah Palin413 pagesReviewed by Thomas Hally Palin’s tome is a critical narrative of her mismanagement during the 2008 Republican White House bid. In a story that could be told in 300 pages instead of 413, she relates personal histories and vignettes about her earliest childhood memories, her adolescence, family,
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Geo-Mexico:The Geography and Dynamics of Modern Mexico By Richard Rhoda and Tony BurtonSombrero Books, B.C., Canada, 2010A Review by James Tipton Ihave several long shelves that hold books about Mexico. This is, after all, my home, my country, and I want to know as much about it as I can. On top of those
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LETTER FOR THE EDITOR Dear Sir: I read your editor’s page article on Monte Cassino and just wanted to add a few more words about it. Anyone familiar with that battle (and there is plenty about it on the web) knows that the battle went on in four stages and certainly I admire the
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