The Guadalajara Reporter
Guadalajara's Largest English Newspaper
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.
Considering the constant stream of criticism voiced by lots of foreign immigrants against our Mexican hosts, I’m fed up with some odd and downright offensive behavior I’ve witnessed lately. What’s good for the goose is good for the gander, so buckle up for return fire.
