Columns

This year the rainy season has made up for past years. Big storms have sent water rushing through mountain-side milpas.

No matter how one may have tried, the situation has become too loathsome and dangerous – and, for a U.S.  citizen, too ridiculous and fearsome – to ignore. And for Mexico, this week’s fresh assessment of Donald Trump and a nuclear bomb has made the consideration of a Trump “wall” seem relatively innocent. 

For a while, north of the border, it’s been rodeo season.

The three unexpected visitors riding into a remote Jalisco pueblo in October 1968 seemed more than a bit reckless.

Still freshly new to the Chapala area, Spencer Adams was luckily taken in hand by an Ajijic bruja (sorcerer) as his neighboring health supervisor – curing fevers attracted by gringo susceptibility, and of course la turista. 

Fresh to Chapala’s Lakeside area, Spencer Adams resided next to a German woman who reportedly had killed his husband just a while back.