Editor’s Page By Alejandro Grattan-Dominguez A WONDERFUL WRITER—Once in Our Midst Paraphrasing Mr. Shakespeare, I come not to re-bury Jim Tuck, but to praise him. My reasons are two-fold: his books The Holy War in Los Altos and John Reed and Pancho Villa. With regard to the first, I have rarely read non-fiction that […]
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Two Men Who Forever Changed Mexico By Herbert W. Piekow Emiliano Zapata and Francisco “Pancho” Villa shared many things in their short lives, but more than anything they were men who saw and experienced the injustices in their homeland and gave their lives to change their country. Both men were revolutionaries, not politicians; in
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Uncommon Common Sense By Bill Frayer billfrayer@gmail.com What Does the Left Get Right? Last month, in the interest of trying to bridge the partisan divide between liberals and conservatives, I explored what left wing thinkers concede that the right may be correct about. This was based on a series of articles for the New
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Bridge By The Lake By Ken Masson It is generally accepted among bridge players that one should not deceive one’s partner. However, from time to time situations arise that just beg to be taken advantage of, where the risk of fooling partner is overridden by the potential gain if the opponents are similarly misled.
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Joyful Musings By Joy Birnbach Dunstan, MA, LPC, MAC No Regrets It’s been said not to take life too seriously because no one gets out of it alive. It might also be said that none of us get through it without at least a few regrets. Taking life seriously enough while we still have
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Welcome To The Unknown By Rosemary Dineen Reviewed by Patricia Hemingway Rosemary’s age, by her own admission, is 79, and the book’s 83 poems have all been written during the past two years of her life spent in Ajijic. The poems are primarily written in-the-moment. She reflects on a mosquito landing on her arm,
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GROWING UP OKIE—And Trying to Kick It By Bob Branson (These scenes come from a larger work in which a boy grows up in Nickson, a middle-sized Oklahoma town. Boys were pressured to play football, basketball, baseball, do the field events in track, hunt, fish, and work. You have to learn a lot of skills
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Welcome to Mexico! By Victoria Schmidt Travel Plans I’m planning a trip to the USA and dreading every moment of it. Oh sure, there are family members I look forward to seeing, and a special occasion my husband is really looking forward to. But I am not looking forward to the whole process of leaving
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Letter To The Editor Dear Sir: To Paul Jackson, I returned on March 31 from traveling in Australia and New Zealand during February and March. Consequently, I had not read your silly response to my factual comments on your column until April 1, appropriately. Certainly you should know gobblydegook, gibberish, and jiggerypokery since that
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Child Of The Month By Rich Petersen Tadeo de Jesús Barajas Aceves Programa pro Niños Incapacitados del Lago is pleased to present this sweet 4-month old little guy, Tadeo de Jesús Barajas Aceves. Tadeo is the youngest of three children and lives with his parents in Chapala. His mother, María Liliana (shown here) is
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