This year, my daughters flew down to spend Christmas week with me in Mexico. When they arrived, they had all the typical stories about how annoying flying has become these days. Flight cancellations, delays, crying babies, seatback-kicking toddlers, snoring passengers. When they landed there were no gates available. So they had to clamber down the […]
My older brother, Ted, is quite the outdoorsman. You’ll often find him hiking through the forests and fields, where he is on a first name basis with every species of tree, bush and weed. A few years ago, he decided he’d like to get a dog that loves the outdoors as much as he does.
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Back when I lived in Southern California, I used to spend a lot of time around the boat harbors. One of my favorite pastimes was sitting in a cappuccino shop overlooking the boat launch ramp, watching novices try to put their small boats in the water. Their first problem was figuring out how to make
Every year, I’m faced with the same problem, what to do for Christmas dinner. Most restaurants are closed on Christmas Day. I live alone and, except for breakfast, I don’t cook much more than the occasional hot dog. That didn’t seem appropriate for celebrating Christmas. The 4th of July, maybe; but not Christmas. Although my
Every year, around the October 4th feast day of St. Francis of Assisi, a local Anglican Church conducts a blessing-of-the-animals ceremony. For many years, they have conducted this event on the sprawling premises of Yves’s restaurant, in West Ajijic. Originally, the church used to conduct this event on their own property, but the number of
(The Sequel) Last month, I wrote about my experiences as a senior citizen finding out that my California driver’s license was about to expire. At my age, I was required to retake the written exam. Spoiler alert! I passed. But when I got back to México, I found out that my Mexican driver’s license had
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Last month, I was back in Southern California for my semi-annual medical appointments. My first task was to rummage through the stack of mail that my daughter had set aside during my absence. It is always a crapshoot as to whether I find pleasant or unpleasant surprises. This time, I rolled “snake eyes.” There was
Back in 2015, a friend, who is a teacher in Iowa, asked me to do an online interview with her Spanish class describing what it is like living in México. Fortunately, it didn’t have to be in Spanish, because neither I nor her students were quite up to that yet. I prepared a few poster
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I recently read an article by a fellow who had interviewed many famous celebrities during his radio career. It got me to thinking about my own experience meeting a genuine Hollywood celebrity while I was working for the air pollution control agency in Los Angeles. Back in the 1990s, a major Hollywood movie studio ran
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It’s about time to see another posting on social media of what purports to be a crocodile lurking among the weeds in Lake Chapala. It happens every couple of years. The last one I recall was in 2021 when a newspaper article reported that the Chapala harbormaster had issued a bulletin warning the public that
