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Delving into local social media, I recently came a across the query of a poster considering future settlement on Lake Chapala’s shores.

As the summer rainy season runs through the month of August, nature brings on a period of growing decay.

Lake Chapala’s natural attributes have be a magnet for artists from around the globe for well over a century. It’s no surprise that creative juices imported from far off places rubbed off on the native populace.

Okay, let’s recognize that anyone who hasn’t heard that wearing a face mask is considered key to preventing the spread of Covid-19 infection must hopelessly out of touch with current reality.

We’ll never know who first brought Covid-19 virus into our community. Suspicion has been cast on Tapatio weekenders, but there are anecdotal accounts of expats who fell ill with lingering flu-like symptoms as far back as last winter before anyone had a clue that a world-wide pandemic was emerging.

In her later years, my mother would sometimes solemnly declare “I’m a widow and an orphan,” as a sort of tongue-in-cheek tactic to stir up sympathies to get her way in dealing with tasks of daily life.