Life in Guadalajara: 10 mayors arrested for tipping off narcos

A couple of weeks ago, we went for a walk in a big local park. The dry season started about six months ago, which means virtually no rain. ...

Dark days at the Baltimore Sun

A column in Politico.com captures the essence of the newspaper crisis. The Baltimore Sun, which had 420 editorial employees a decade ago, n...

Flu update: 3 local deaths mean schools, bars, cinemas closed till May 18

The state of Jalisco where we live has a population of 7 million. So far there have been three cases of the H1N1 flu here that have resulte...

Spanish lessons and Mexico City architecture

A letter from Cindy We need a bumper sticker that says "I brake for archaeological sites." Saludos a familia y amigos, I took the ...

The Virgin of Guadalupe on a pancake grill and other mysteries

Americans don´t really understand the Virgin Mary and her significance to Catholics. So they couldn´t be expected to understand the exponen...

Video interview on talents needed for journalists

In March I was on a panel in Huesca, Spain, on the training needs of journalists. Here is a four-minute video on that subject. The intervi...

Moby Dick, a great book that nobody reads

There were only about a dozen books that I brought with me here to Guadalajara. One of them was “Moby Dick”. It swept me away when I read i...