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Editor’s Page – April 2022“The Greatest Generation – and Us” Looking at modern history, one wonders if ours is the generation of wimps. Not only that, a sizable portion …
Slaying The Deer Slayers In Mexico: The Yaqui ExperienceThe following is an excerpt from Lost Worlds of 1863: Relocation and Removal of American Indians in the Central Rockies and the Greater Southwest, recently …
The Easter Bunny’s Retirement PartyA Fable for Our Times Once upon a time, there was a festive gathering of the famous and fabulous at a party hosted by the …
Vexations and Conundrums – April 2022Can We Just Talk? I feel like my brain power diminished during the pandemic. Words come to me slower and writing something by hand seems …
If Our Pets Could Talk – April 2022This is part two: Lessons our pets can teach us, if we observe them. Have you ever seen a cat or dog get so focused …
Front Row Center – April 2022Season 57 This has been an up-and-down season. There have been two historical plays, two strange plays, a musical event, and finally a Canadian comedy. …
Streets of Mexico – April 2022El Pípila Perhaps his nickname, “El Pípila” (The Turkey), referred to the freckles on his face, reminiscent of those on a turkey egg. Perhaps it …
Random ActsA Powerful New Novel Of The First World War By A Powerful New Author A 12-year-old girl is led out into the town square and …
Drag RacingExcerpt from my young adult novel in process, FOR THE WANT OF LOVE “Listen, Kaya. Carl wants to go drag racing in Nankin Township where …
TruancyDuring Jesuit Theology class at Loyola High School one warm afternoon in 1947, Father Duggins’s monotonous voice was mesmerizing the ninth-grade class of fifty boys …
Verdant View – April 2022Spring has sprung! Signs of spring are everywhere throughout the month of April. Like the birds that are darting this way and that while prepping …
Remembering ChuchoChucho was a rescue dog who didn’t have much to recommend him. He was a little larger than an average sized dog, a little shaggy …
Lakeside Living – April 2022Kim LeMieux Email: kimslakesideliving@gmail.com Ph: +1-650-863-3928 April 2022 Lakeside Living is please to welcome Kim LeMieux as Events Editor.  LL thanks Carol D. Bradley for …
Mirage de el Dorado – The Search for Legendary Gold ContinuesA man walked into a bar in Panama in 1921 and approached another, who sat hunched over a beer. “Say, are you the pilot they …
Profiling Tepehua – April 2022Amidst a world of turmoil, political insanity, wars that no-one ever wins, pandemics and inclement weather, we feel the stirrings of spring.  With our friends …
Monday Morning TeaThe widow Eloise reached for the glass of water from her bedside table and sipped it slowly, the water moistening her papery tongue. The pink …
Life In The Laugh Lane – April 2022Making Fun I have only been arrested once… for joking at an airport. In its infancy in 1973, the airline security in Wisconsin consisted of …
Get Those Mammies GrammedI was reading the December issue of El Ojo del Lago, and saw a notice that free mammograms were being given in Chapala on a …
The Forgotten School of Los AyalaHave you ever had a vision? An idea? The feeling deep down in your soul the universe has sent you a message? Canadian actor/artist Gail Simpson describes what …
They Walk Among Us: Narcissists on the LooseYou might associate the term narcissism with people who are self-absorbed. In fact, NPD (Narcissistic Personality Disorder) is a relatively new term. The narcissistic personality …
BreathBreath our lithe form enchants as you move wistfully about me – like slender diurnals your hands cast a mystic spell as your eyes close …
DeliveranceDeliverance By Margaret Van Every Foot and fist embossed on the belly, time came when the womb had had its fill of you, your punch …
RefugeesRefugees By Margaret Van Every   All it took were two: the primordial man and woman were the first to be expelled. The soil, the …
Smile And Say NO!We stifle our laughter and stifle our sighs. Flutter our palms to dry out our eyes. All of these feelings caught up inside, go back …
AbracadabraI don’t like magic. It freaks me out. Perhaps, it’s because magic is not easily explained and I am one who wants quick, simple answers …
Inside The Crystal DomeMcdannaldproperties@yahoo.com The air was musty and stale and breathing was difficult. There were several other kids also under the dome. I had spent a few …
Planning a Mexican Memorial During CovidI had a very unusual grief reaction to my husband Chuck’s death in January 2021. I lost my memory. Couldn’t remember my pin number for …
Couragegooglesydney@yahoo.com The most loving exciting teachers in my seventy-nine years of life have been musicians who faced danger, loss and sorrow without losing faith in …
Morning MeditationSliding silently into the murky pond my wooden paddle breaks the glass pushing ripples, gurgling softly, surging the kayak towards the cabin on the point …

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