October 2012

Anita’s Animals By Jackie Kellum   You have found or rescued a cat/dog. After your initial action, then the problem arises, what do you do with  this animal? If you think of Anita’s Animals to help you with your problem, you have now transferred ownership of your problem to another person – which is fine. […]

MOVING TO MEXICO By Lisa JorgensenReviewed by Francine Britton     A big thank you to Lisa Jorgensen for writing this book! I read through it just as I was approaching my sixth month of living as a newly-minted retiree in Ajijic, Mexico and knew for sure that Lisa Jorgensen had ‘been there and done

“¡OBAMANOS!” By Fred Mittag   This election should alarm us into urgency. The alternative to the incumbent, according to top economists, is “disaster.” Obama is educated in scientific economics and Romney is a wealthy beneficiary of “supply-side,” or “trickle-down economics.” The first Bush called it “voodoo economics.” Romney is a “job creator” in America by

Hearts at Work A Column by James Tipton “Insist on yourself; never imitate.”   Once again I have experienced in a few short months some dramatic changes in my life, and once again I have resorted to what has always helped to heal me: cleaning and reorganizing (in some cases tossing out) the things that

MITT VERSUS BARACK—No Contest! By Thomas Hally   “I will not surrender America’s role in the world,” stated Mitt Romney in a speech at The Citadel in Charleston, South Carolina. And he continued, “If you don’t want America to be the strongest nation on Earth, I am not your president. You have that president today.”

LAKESIDE LIVING Kay Davis Phone: 376 – 108 – 0278 (or 765 – 3676 to leave messages) Email: kdavis987@gmail.com October 2012 PAST EVENTS Out at last is Lisa L. Jorgensen’s Moving to Mexico’s Lake Chapala.  Lisa moved here just this past spring from the US. Her discoveries in making that move and as a newcomer

Why I will Never Fly Through the US Again By John Ward TSA = Taze Suspect Air-travelers   It was a flight to Amsterdam in the winter of 2010. I checked in early and left my hold baggage with the airline. Soon I was heading for the security check point and found a line of

Ajijic’s Street Merchants By Antonio Ramblés AKA Tony Passarello www.antoniorambles.com anthony.passarello@yahoo.com   It’s nearly a century since pushcarts plied the streets of most American neighborhoods; sidewalk vendors of nearly every stripe went out of style when the nation traded Main Streets for malls. In Mexico street merchants are alive and well. It seems as if

THE HEAVENS FOR MY ROOF, THE EARTH FOR MY BED By Dr. Lorin Swinehart   There were six Boy Scouts in the tent: Dan, Gerald, Ralph, Jim Tipton, the future poet and “Man Who Fell in Love with Everything,” and myself.  Later in the week, another boy named Jim arrived, an irascible character that always

The Poets’ Niche By Mark Sconce msconce@gmail.com Robert W. Service (1874-1958)   Certainly not a “serious”poet as defined by the poetry cognoscenti but one of my favorites because my mother introduced him to teenager me. She harbored a fascination for his poems and fell under the spell of the Yukon as depicted by Service during