Imprints By Antonio Ramblés AKA Tony Passarellowww.antoniorambles.comantonio.rambles@yahoo.com Roaming thru Rome   What can be left to write about a place that’s been called “The Eternal City” for most of its nearly 3,000 year history?  The city’s been so widely photographed and the world has come to know it so intimately through films ranging from Biblical […]

Justice Is Just A Word By Janice Kimball   Recently, a newspaper reporter from the Guadalajara Reporter asked an employed woman on her lunch hour what it felt like to be liberated. She replied she had no time for liberation. All of her time was spent working to feed her family.  If we truly believed

UNCOMMON COMMON SENSE By Bill Frayer Medical Costs: Value over Volume   In a survey reported in 2013 in The Atlantic that compared medical outcomes in 17 industrialized nations, the US ranked worst in the number of women dying in childbirth and in child mortality before the age of five.  It ranked second worst in

The Ghosts Among Us By Fred Mittag “The Desert Fox”   At the beginning of WWII, Erwin Rommel was appointed commander of the troops guarding Hitler’s headquarters and he became personally known to Hitler. In 1940, he assumed command of the 7th Panzer Division. He quickly understood the tremendous possibilities of mechanized troops in an

Welcome to Mexico!By Victoria Schmidt License Plates   As with many ex-patriots, we recently struggled with the problem of owning a foreign plated car. With the new immigration rules, we would need to have a Mexican plate on our van. As we began to explore our options, our car provided an answer. The car’s computer

Free Ranging Crime In Mexico By Roberta Richrobertarich@telus.net   Don’t get me wrong. I love Mexico. In fact, so much I bought a house here. But the crime!? It’s got to stop. Let me tell you about the most recent incident. This year I bought, along with two of my neighbors, the land adjoining our

Profiling Tepehua By Moonyeen Kingmoonie1935@yahoo.com   A lot of us who come from developed parts of the world take our drinking water for granted.  We have had to become a little more mindful of it since moving here, but still do not realize the problems faced by some of our more unfortunate Mexican neighbors. In

Wisdom Of The Pueblo (Based on a true story) By Margaret Van Every   I break into a sweat whenever I recall that night last December because I can’t think about it without reliving it. When you measure terror, two minutes is forever. It was several weeks before Navidad. Carlitos and I boarded a bus

Hearts at Work A Column by James Tipton Kissing Can Slow the Aging Process   Around the holidays I wrote a column about kissing, with a focus on famous movie kisses. That generated a lot of pleasant comments, and so with the romantic days of early summer upon us, I thought I would revisit that

Mexico’s  Pre-Hispanic Cuisine By Virginia Miller   Meso-American cuisine is one of the oldest in the world. Carbon 14 samplings establish its beginning in Mexico 6,000 years ago. Elaborate pottery, cooking utensils and obsidian knives and spoons attest to its importance. The Mexican cuisine evolved around corn. Being simple in its raw materials, developed its