A NEW LEASE—on Life! By Judit Rajhathy, B.A., RNCP, D.Ac1. Hot Dogs – Maybe . . . but Chicken? Most people know that processed meats are carcinogenic because they usually contain sodium nitrite, a preservative which turns into toxic nitrosamines in the body. But few people know that a report by the World Cancer …
CHILD of the month By Rich Petersen Ulises Saúl Guerrero Velázquez What a great name, eh? This is “almost” 9-year old Ulises Saúl Guerrero Velázquez. Ulises lives in Ixtlahuacán with his parents and three siblings. Mom, María Guadalupe, is a housewife and also does sewing and alterations. Dad, Saúl, works on the assembly line …
The Fotheringham Speech By Allan Fotheringham (Ed. Note: What follows are excerpts of a speech that this widely-renown Canadian writer and foreign correspondent recently made to the Ajijic Writers’ Group.) I was born in Hearne, Saskatchewan. People from Hearne are called Hernias. One church, one blacksmith shop, two grain elevators, 26 people. In fact, …
The Animal Shelter Report By Thetis Reeves Maya, the lovely deaf cat, and her companion, Ivy, have really lucked out this time and been adopted into a happy home with nine (!) other cats. Their new mistress says Maya likes sitting in her lap to be rocked in the rocking chair. Because of her …
A Santiago Sunrise on a Manzanillo Morn By Tom Clarkson Another glorious day began at its regular time for me of 7:00. Gingerly, I gently (read “creakingly”) rose through comfortable somnolence to a state of wakeful awareness. As has been the case for many, many years, no alarm clock was necessary. Years ago, barracks …
Letter to the Editor Dear Sir: I have been in the screenwriting business for a long time—and I think it quite an achievement that you were able to reach the stage you did three times, making the top two percent of the many thousands of entries in the most competitive, international screenwriting contests in …
An Older Woman By Patricia Hemingway Jenny Joseph proclaimed, “When I am an old woman I shall wear purple, and a red hat” and she spawned a cadre of copycats who took her words literally. I believe she was saying, ”be yourself, dear.” Wear any damn color you please. I dress the way I …
Lakeside LivingBy Kay Davis Phone: (376) 766-4774or 765-3676 to leave messages Email: kdavis987@gmail.com May 2011 PAST EVENTS: At the March CASA meeting – that’s Culinary Art Society of Ajijic – Ginger Perkins and Monica Molloy won First Place awards for their presentations. Monica presented South Indian Vegetable Curry in Category A, Vegetarian Entrée. For Category …
The Poets’ Niche By Mark Sconce msconce@gmail.com Lord Byron, Childe of Passion Time spent pouring over poems and their poets has convinced me of one thing certain: Any attempt to discover a connection between a poet’s behavior here on earth with the sublimity or beauty or sensitivity of his or her poetry is quite …
THE REVELATION OF ST. GEORGE By Duncan Aldric I would like to do what I think is the most important thing that I can do, that is to introduce you to whom it has been said is the greatest writer of Neo-Mythic Poetry that has ever lived… exceeding, in his writings, even the Genius …
