On May 12, an hour before a group of Mexican students arrived at Ajijic’s Wilkes Center to begin the exercise “Difficult Journey,” 20 volunteers gathered for an orientation, led by lakeside resident Phil Rylett.

For all of her 70 years, Sydney Metrick claims she has never been “normal.”  In fact, the lakeside resident, coach, teacher and author – and misfit – says she was “all over the map.”

The Daily Mail, a bastion of journalistic integrity if there ever was one, has trained its keen eye on yet another matter of vital importance to its home country of Britain and, to be sure, the world.

“To this world so beautiful that I long to stay forever.”

Michelle Merritt’s life has had its share of storybook chapters. Perhaps one of the best integrated Americans in Mexico, she was brought here at the age of six by her mother and father, a petroleum engineer with Pemex.

Employees of Japan’s Yamaha Corporation came specifically to Jalisco to talk with musicians here, including members of the famed Vargas de Tecalitlan band, regarding exactly what sound they require of a trumpet.