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As Easter and its celebrated miracle approaches, we here at Lakeside also go through a major transformation. In the weather, that is.

1.  Popcorn comes originally from Mexico. Called momochtli, it was first prepared in pre-Hispanic cities in the center of Mexico. But nobody knew what to do with popcorn until ...

I have learned recently that leaf blower usage is on the rise at Lakeside and that technically they violate current Jalisco noise pollution laws.  For those on condo and fraccionamiento boards who don’t understand such laws, it means leaf blowers are loud, the kind of loud that can rattle pots and pans. Short of a motorcycle revving up for 20 minutes on your terraza, few things, including Joshua at Jericho, have the power to shake your roof tiles like the fury of a gas-powered leaf blower. 

There’s been a rush to find nature’s own original health balms and cures within every earthly nook and cranny, probably from the time Homo Erectus realized chasing mammoths around all week made for serious joint pain.

Mexico’s state of “orphanhood” as described by Octavio Paz has puzzled Mesoamerican anthropologists and historians for centuries.

I think as denizens at Lakeside we have an obligation to try to learn Spanish. Even if just to show our hosts that we, as guests, don’t expect them to bear the burden of speaking English for our convenience.