Articles 2010

GRINGAS & GUACAMOLE By Gail Nott Early Childhood Development   I have often wondered how I managed to develop past early childhood without pre-nursery, nursery, pre-kindergarten, kindergarten and most importantly, an au pair. My first caregiver was a very high, dark mahogany, ornately carved bed, with an enormous feather-ticked mattress. Each morning, before sun-up, my

ANYTHING YOU CAN DO(they can do better!) By Tom Clarkson   It may be a brother-in-law, next door neighbor or that particularly irritating high school bellicose bully who has badly gone to seed. You know the kind, those guys (and occasional woman) who, no matter what you say, are the “I can top that” sort!

Dispossession and Apartheid By Fred Mittag   Peter Rosenberg invoked “anti-Semitism” six times in “The Israeli Side” (Ojo-June issue). That’s a lot of anti-Semitism. Tony Klug, writing for Tikkun Magazine, a Jewish critique of politics, culture, and society, described what he called “definition creep” that trivializes past Jewish suffering. Zionists such as Alan Dershowitz browbeat

IN MEMORIAMEKTOR CARRANZA1932-2010 (Submitted by Tod Jonson)   Ektor Carranza was a founding member of Culinary Art Society of Ajijic 24 years ago. He was a Life Member of CASA. Ektor, being totally bilingual, brought the Mexican and Anglo community together through food. Ektor was a generous, loving man and loved life — living twenty-five of those years here

DEADLY DE MAYO By Scott Richards   Hussong’s Cantina was a swaying sea of the vertically unconscious. A writhing, drunken mass of the insane, their eyeballs floating in tequila. It was true Margarita madness. After all, this was the birthplace of the notorious concoction back in 1941. The history and the sheer volume consumed there

Migration By Bill Frayer As you alight upon my wrist Looking hale, f   irm and fit Your Princeton patterned, paper wings Have brought you here to rest and sit   In these high pines in Mexico From Canada; you’ve made your flight Primordial beacon led the way I, pausing, breathless, drink in the sight,

A Beach Less Traveled By Rob Mohr   Going to the beach? Want to relax with good friends and enjoy the natural landscape and the open sea as you walk without interruption along a beautiful beach with no high rise hotels in sight? La Manzanilla, facing beautiful Tenacatita Bay, is my favorite. Once settled into

LETTER TO THE EDITOR   Dear Sir: I am writing this short letter to simply bear witness to the fact that, in my experience, you have indeed commendably struggled to keep a fair and proportionate balance between the articles submitted for publication in the “Ojo” on the subject of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. I can say

FROM MY TROPICAL DECK CHAIR By “Consuelo”   Retirement and reinvention. If we want to be happy in this, the 4th quarter of our lives, we must reinvent ourselves. Retirement without reinvention produces the nicest but dullest lost boys and girls in wrinkly old bodies. I know. I see it sometimes here in Puerto Vallarta.