While Debi Buckland, a relatively new resident of lakeside, was busy settling into her recently purchased home with husband Bruce, she stumbled upon an article by Wendy Jane Carrel about the Death Café movement. 

Fiestas and celebrations throughout the Republic and abroad commemorated Mexican Independence Day last week.

Narcisco, the name of a pig from Guadalajara who has been spared from becoming bacon, will be one of the animals featured at lakeside’s first annual Lake Chapala Vegan Fest on Saturday, September 29.

For ten years, Susana Salazar, working with a treatment center specializing in psychological problems of young people, has seen a worrisome rise in types of self harm that were once studied mostly in higher-income countries such as Canada, the United States and in Europe.

Although lamented by followers of a certain U.S. president, globalism is on the rise, even on a leafy and not especially commercial street corner in Guadalajara, where Korean native Sujin Lee and Tapatio Cesar Cardenas set up the enigmatically named establishment, SSAM, four years ago and turned it into a raging success.

For the last 30 years Chris Wysock’s career as a full-time nurse involved working with the medically underserved and migrant populations in Oregon’s Williamette Valley.