Yesterday I was reading Mural, one of the better local dailies (there are five here), and I came upon this startling statistic: In the past ...
Yesterday I was reading Mural, one of the better local dailies (there are five here), and I came upon this startling statistic: In the past ...
An ecologically conscious "catrina" with a skirt made of garbage bags. Mexico´s Day of the Dead celebration is a mix of indigenous...
Today was our 40th anniversary, and we hadn´t planned anything special. We took a drive up to Tequila, a town where they´ve been making the...
I worry less about swine flu and armed drug dealers than I do about careless motorists. Cindy and I don´t ride our bikes here in Guadalajara...
Cindy and I went to see a Mexican rodeo back in October. It was a big championship with teams competing from various clubs and towns around...
I went out for a bike ride to test my little Flip video camera, which is about the size of a pack of cigarettes. Cycling normally isn´t saf...
July 5 is election day here in Mexico, the equivalent our mid-term elections, in which the federal and state legislators and municipal offic...
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. ...
Last week the big news was that the head of the state´s homicide squad was assassinated while he was driving on the Guadalajara beltway. T...
In a nearby public park here in Guadalajara, el Bosque los Colomos, the azaleas are blooming in January.
Dec. 12 is the Feast of the Virgin of Guadalupe, and the Sanctuary named for her in Guadalajara is the site of a festival every year. The c...
Cindy and I went to the U.S. consulate´s election night party last night and felt very proud to be Americans. There were lots of people from...
Lake Chapala lies 30 miles south of Guadalajara and lot of American and Canadian retirees live there. The town of Ajijic (ah-hee-HEEK, soun...