My first trip in 2009 with a loaded trailer from Dallas, TX ended in Sayula, Jalisco, MX, and I spent New Year’s Eve there before heading back to Laredo for another load. As I drove north, I had a heart full of a promising new life in Mexico. Back then, you could drive straight though […]
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Pre-Covid19 (Ye Good Olde Days), I enjoyed driving my huge van to Texas and beyond to compete in chili cookoffs, visit friends and family and do some shopping. I always take one or two of my standard poodles with me for companionship and an illusion of protection. Even parking in shaded areas, the summer temperatures
Admit it … when Dick Van Dyke trips and falls, or if you’ve ever watched America’s Funniest Videos, you laugh when the dunce falls. But, of course, in film, he jumps back up and is in play again. Let me explain something to you if you aren’t already aware. Things have changed, and getting up
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Ann Whiting started the Mexican National Chili Cookoff in 1978, and I first flew down from Dallas, TX in February of 1997 to compete with the elite cooks from all over the United States. That year it was held in the Ajijic Soccer Field, adjacent to the Wednesday Market. Twenty cooks competed on Friday, February
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We’ve all had them … some more private than others … some more traumatic … and some hilarious! I was eight years old, shopping with my mother in downtown Oklahoma City on Thursday evening when the stores stayed open until 8 p.m. We were walking down Main Street and the elastic on my panties broke
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I first visited Lake Chapala in 1997, when I came down with friends to compete in the Mexican National Chili Cookoff, capably captained by Ann Whiting.
