Bridget, California, and travels in Mexico

Letter from Cindy: A lot has happened in the past 2 months. We moved, I joined a book club, Bridget came for a visit, I went to California, ...

Monarch Butterly Reserve in Michoacán

Monarch butterflies from Canada, the Great Lakes and eastern U.S. migrate some 3,000 miles south each fall to mountaintops in Michoacán, cen...

Pátzcuaro, charming lakeside town

We arrived on Christmas Eve. The town, in the state of Michoacán, was packed with holiday shoppers. Parents were buying their children piñ...

Christmas under the Volcano in Michoacán

The volcano of Paricutín, center, emerged from a cornfield in 1943 and rose to a height of about 1,500 feet above the surrounding area. We w...

El Zapatazo, or the Big Shoe Thing with Bush

In Latin America the shoe-throwing incident is called the zapatazo, literally The Big Shoe incident. My favorite comic strip, Tales of Cops ...

The death of the newspaper boy

It says in the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times that home delivery of the Detroit Free Press and Detroit News will be cut back d...