The Poets’ Niche By Mark Sconce Anonymous (2200 B.C.—Present) This month’s column will exhume a body of poetry from the Tomb of the Unknown Poet. He’s written more lines than any other poet. His story begins over 4,000 years ago on the eve of the Bronze Age and the dawning of the Iron Age. He […]
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Anita’s Animals By Jackie Kellum Oct. 4th is the Feast of St. Francis of Assisi and World Day For Animals, recognized universally by Animal Societies all over the world. At times it is hard to keep faith in humankind when you see cruelty in various forms in the treatment of animals here at Lakeside
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Welcome to Mexico! By Victoria Schmidt What Makes a Restaurant? Before moving to Mexico, I envisioned Mexican restaurants to be like the “Mexican Restaurants” in the USA. The one we frequented near our previous home sat about 200 people, at large wooden tables with large chairs. The bright décor was “traditional Mexican” and there were
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Focus on Art By Rob Mohr Magic Realism: A Visual Poetry of Fantasy and Dreams Salvador Dalí wrote, “There is only one difference between a madman and me. I am not mad.” My recent interview with Jesus Lopez Vega brought into focus the evocative, revolutionary power of Magic Realism (MR) to impart a fresh
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Joyful Musings By Joy Birnbach Dunstan,MA, LPC, MAC How Can I Help? Maybe it’s just my age, but lately it seems like I’ve been surrounded by more than the usual number of people with serious health issues. Even I endured my own health scare that was wonderfully relieved when five doctors agreed the original radiography
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UNCOMMON COMMON SENSE By Bill Frayer Can We Get Back to Civil, Thoughtful Dialogue? As I watch the travails of the US President, Barack Obama, I notice that, predictably, he is being attacked by conservatives. What may be more surprising is that he is facing withering criticism from the left as well. Many liberals think
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The Bitch And The Chow (Or the trials and tribulations of a pet/house sitter) By Kelly Hayes-Raitt Next week, I was supposed to be dog/housesitting for Pixie, a chow-chow with separation anxiety so severe she once threw herself through a plate glass window. It did occur to me that watching this chow might be
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BRIDGE BY THE LAKE By Ken Masson F. Scott Fitzgerald once wrote that “The rich are different than you or me” to which his friend Ernest Hemingway retorted: “Yes, they have more money.” In bridge terms, we might say that the stars of the game are also different; they make plays that mere mortals
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The Spy In Love By John Hoopes 170 pages – $15 US Review by Kenneth J Clarke John Hoopes novel The Spy in Love is a tale of industrial and political espionage set on the shores of Lake Chapala as we entered this millennium. In July 2000, after ruling Mexico for 71 years, the
An Unchanged Village By K. Pontikes If you looked at a stack of photographs of Ajijic, Mexico from the last decade, you wouldn’t see too many changes in the pictures as time progressed. There would still be horses ridden by unfashionable, dusty caballeros, riding alongside the main road, occasionally crossing at a red light
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