I think it was not many years after the millenium that this particular circus came to town. I know it was Ash Wednesday. Even the hootchy-kootchy dancer had a smudge on her forehead. All day there had been a great to-do in the pasture across from the soccer field in San Pancho – the pasture […]
Though I met my husband, Jonathan, 50 years ago, we didn’t marry until 20 years later. It was all very messy. Not only did I have a first husband, but later Jonathan had a first wife, They were marriages about which we were both serious, and in which we were both unhappy, and all the
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As my husband and I made our way around San Sebastián’s plaza on the Day of the Dead, with real sadness we encountered the altar dedicated to the memory of Doña Conchita Sánchez Encarnación, who had departed without our knowledge. Her ofrenda was located under the gazebo in the center of the plaza, perhaps an
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