Mexico’s Dynamic Economy By Robert Kleffel (Courtesy of Carol Wheeler, mexico@mexconnect.com) It is often said that when the US gets a cold, Mexico gets pneumonia. This time it didn’t happen. Let’s look at the data from Mexico’s dynamic economy. During this last recession, in the US millions of homes are in foreclosure, 250 banks […]
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A NEW LEASE—on Life! By Judit Rajhathy, B.A., RNCP, D.Ac. So You Think You Can Dance? Of course you can! The late Martha Graham claimed that dance is the hidden language of the soul. Everyone can dance – so can you! I will never forget my first dance lesson in Ajijic at the ripe
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Lethal Conspiracy By Gary Fuller Reviewed by David Bryen I’ told my wife, not as kindly as I wanted to: “Don’t distract me. I’ll eat dinner as soon as I finish the book.” When I got to the end of Lethal Conspiracy, I jumped out of my chair as if I’d been stung by
Inside Alzheimer’s Disease By Michael Cook As family members and friends, we can research A.D. and find out the facts and the implications on how the disease can impact on the sufferer. So I decided to look at the disease from the sufferer’s perspective. This was the challenge because nobody knows what the sufferer
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Another Bite Of History By Mel Goldberg On March 5, 1953, Joseph Vissarionovich Djugashvili Stalin died of a cerebral hemorrrhage. His body was preserved and placed in Lenin’s mausoleum. Dora Abramova, a staunch party member, said she had kept Lenin in her heart to help her through hard times. She said she had consulted
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La Frontera Fabulosa By June Summers The U.S.-Mexican border is an imaginary line stretching from San Diego to Matamoros. It is 1,933 miles long, and forms the southwest boundaries of California, Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas. Its influence permeates an area two to three hundred miles wide, on both sides of the line. Traveling
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The Wall By Gloria Marthai Current memory of the formidable wall and gate is becoming mistier, receding as a shadow touched by darkness, falling away into the unrecorded past. Built in turbulent, repressive times following the Mexican Revolution and the Cristero Rebellion, it remained a veritable wedge until 1935, separating the two barrios of
Apartheid, Cricket & Dolly By David Harper Basil D’Oliveira died today in England. He was 80 or maybe 83; his real age was always a mystery. I saw him play in Kidderminster in 1964 and I followed his career with interest. “Dolly,” as he was known, was a professional cricketer. He became famous as
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To Love for a Thousand Years/El amor que dura mil años Ediciones del Lago (2011) Poems by James Tipton; translations by Flor Aguilera García Reviewed by Margaret Van Every Available at Diane Pearl Colecciones, Galería Sol Mexicano, and Coffee & Bagels $10 US/100 pesos Just when you thought you knew Jim Tipton through his
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Keeping Up With The Jones’ By Tod Jonson People in Southern Alabama have an idea that they are just ‘down-home-sorta-folks’ who enjoy everything and that you are going to enjoy it with them. The Jones family of three brothers wanted to go hunting and take me along. Little did they know that I am
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