December 2011

Intel 2012 Lakeside Community Awards Nominations due by December 23, 2011   Lakesiders have this opportunity to nominate those individuals, in the follow categories, for their outstanding contributions made during 2011. Please consider carefully any one or more people you feel deserve to be recognized for their dedication while improving our Lakeside life style! The […]

Madre By Liza Bakewell A book review by Kay Davis     During her many sabbaticals in Mexico over the years, Liza Bakewell, a linguistic anthropologist at Brown University, inquired about the use of the word madre because she saw it written as graffiti in confusing and sometimes unflattering terms. She heard it used by

A New Team Manages the Student Aid Program for LCS Submitted by Blue   After 19 years of running the Lake Chapala Society’s Student Aid Program (SAP), Coralee White is stepping down.  And she’s stepping down proud as a peacock. She’s worked with more than 300 students throughout those years who have received student aid

Communicating In “Latin American” By June Summers   Hurdle the language barrier by learning Latin American hand and voice signals. These vary from one culture to another. The following are distinctly Latino: The Wagging Finger–is the way to say no, definitely and finally. No one questions this dignified and simple way of saying “No.” Just

Swap Meet By Allen McGill     “We can’t leave yet,” Laura insisted. “We ain’t checked even half the tables yet.” “Honey,” her husband moaned, “this swap meet goes on for miles.” He stopped to rearrange the array of shopping bags, plastic sacks, boxes and packages in his hands, on his arms, hanging from his

The Phoenix:Short Stories, Vignettes and Anecdotes By Robert Bruce DrynanA review by James Tipton     Lakeside writer Robert Bruce Drynan is the author of two well-received books: Domain of the Scorpion, about a man and a woman being pursued by drug terrorists in Venezuela and Colombia, and What Price Liberty? about the unprovoked attack

SUMMARY EXECUTION By Kenneth G. Crosby   In the days following the execution without trial of Osama bin Laden, celebration of the event seemed to be the only news reported on U.S. TV. The Director of the CIA said that the order was to kill bin Laden, but the official report that he was unarmed,

World’s Worst Puns (Written by various people with too much time on their hands) —I wondered why the baseball was getting bigger. Then it hit me. —Police were called to a day care where a three-yr-old was resisting a rest. —Did you hear about the guy whose whole left side was cut off? He’s all

Our Mexican Help By Barbara Hildt   Our speaking little Spanish can limit the conversations we have with the Mexicans who help us maintain our houses and gardens. We manage to point out the things that need cleaning and repair.  We may ask “Como estas?” and say “Gracias” when they leave our homes to return

MELANOMA AT CHAPALA’S LAKESIDE—EARLY DETECTION By Dra. Andrea B. Ruiz Leal and Dr. Luis Enrique Sánchez Dueñas.   Melanoma is the most important skin cancer. It ranks third in frequency, life threatening and high mortality index. When detected early by clinical examination and dermoscopy (a tool that increases the diagnostic accuracy by 35%) melanoma can