February 2023 – Articles - El Ojo del Lago

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Title	Content	Author
YOU and Your Doctor Are Your Medical Team – February 2023	It is never an easy decision to move a loved one into a care facility. Watching someone lose their ability to live independently can be …	Jackie Kellum
Life In The Laugh Lane – February 2023	6,000,000 Cleaning Ladies 2,000,000 flying termites. 6,000,000 cleaning ladies AS a child, I was very young. I used to harass ants, stomp on their hills …	Scott Jones
Poetry Niche – February 2023	Judy Dykstra-Brown moved to San Juan Cosala in 2001. The Tennessee Writers Alliance National Poetry Award’s first place winner in 2002, for the past nine …	Mel Goldberg
A HARROWING JOURNEY – a true story	My sister was a twenty-two year-old South African freedom fighter. On July 9th, 1964, in the dead of winter, she and her husband fled Johannesburg …	Gabrielle Blair
Surprise Stay-cation with Lakeside Cultural and Artistic Adventure	Time flies by and nothing seems to happen and then suddenly everything seems to happen at once. Mid-December I received a late afternoon call from …	Helen Gallagher
Peeling an Onion	PART 2 Dumb Luck I flew to Caracas and we met with our attorneys. The attorney had little to say. He observed as my bosses …	Robert Bruce Drynan
Verdant View – February 2023	Cleansing: You Are Love During the month of February most of our thoughts turn to Valentine’s Day cards, bouquets of fragrant and colorful flowers, big …	Francisco Nava
Lime Tree Life Lessons	I sit on the tiled floor of my back porch, listening to the mourning doves hoo, hoo, hoo and the other little birds cheep, chirp, …	Daria Hilton
Who’s Afraid Of The Big Bad Wolf?	Wildlife Need Their Enemies as Well as Their Friends It was still black dark, early in the morning, the opening day of wild turkey season. …	Lorin Swinehart
Of Valentine’s	In February romance bloomsAnd Valentine’s becomeThe favored way of making plainThat love has struck you dumb. Heart shaped this and heart shaped thatAre given and …	Mark Sconce
Death is Not the End	Each of us has our own reason for living abroad, away from family and the comforts of familiar places, while we also have an, often …	Herbert Piekow
Five of Oslo’s Venues with “Wow” Power	Part 2 (Part 1 appeared in the January 2023 issue) Afternoon sunlight streamed through the glass wall on the 13th floor observation deck, unveiling the …	Carol L. Bowman
Lakeside Living – February 2023	Kim LeMieux Email: kimslakesideliving@gmail.com February 11th, Saturday 10:00am ~ 3:00pm The last one-day LCS Art in the Garden show of this season in the gardens of …	Kim LeMieux
Mickey Mantle and Don Cherry	By Barry Michael NealRadio personality, who remembers some of his many encounters and interviews with famous sports and artists in the world of entertainment. Barry …	Barry Michael Neal
When the Mr. is the Mrs.	A Story for Valentine’s Day It is February, the month when St. Valentine most passionately plies his trade. You know: hearts and flowers, candy and …	Don Beaudreau
If Our Pets Could Talk – February 2023	Even after all this time, I am still saddened when I hear of a person dying at lakeside, and it is discovered that no arrangements …	Jackie Kellum
Vexations And Conundrums – February 2023	It’s In The Cards My first memories of Valentine’s Day are way back in kindergarten. There was a frisson of excitement as we heard about …	Katina Pontikes
Behind The Beaded Curtain	I’m not easily embarrassed. But, lately, a number of my house guests have commented that my guest room décor is “Bordello-Chic.” Apparently this is because …	Larry Kolczak
Word Salad – February 2023	Spanglish, anyone? Just as the United States is referred to as a melting pot of nationalities, the English language has adopted many words and phrases …	Sally Asante
My Imaginary Friend	I became aware that I had mentioned my imaginary friend, Gumbye, in a previous story without introducing him to you, my readers. Let me do …	Bernie Suttle
Love Signs	Stones in the shape of hearts lay directly in front of me on my walks along the 20 miles of lakefront between Chapala and Jocotepec. …	Judy Dykstra-Brown
Editor’s Page – February 2023	Guest Editorial By Fred Mittag “In Defense of Guns” A man who killed ten people in a Boulder, Colorado, grocery has been declared mentally incompetent …	Fred Mittag