Ever since I had to wear glasses I began to see more. When I had perfect eyesight I was immature, as I tried to see everything through my eyes only. Therefore, my painting was realistic and detailed to the point of stiffness, obstructed by my demanding architectural precision. Now I am able to … [Read more...]
Bye Bye Snow – Hello Sunny Vallarta!
February 24, 2014
Anticipation is building. Time to get packin’. It’s snowing again in Chicago. I want to be back in – Puerto Vallarta! As I work my to-do list, I find myself breaking out in song, thanks and apologies to Carmen Miranda and the Andrew Sisters. Gotta get goinin’, where are we goinin’? What are we … [Read more...]
Voice and Tone in Writing by John Scherber, An American Voice in Mexico
October 9, 2013
Often we start out as novice writers using a style that we hope resembles our favorite novelist. We think that if only we could write like he does, we’d be nothing short of great. By the time I was a high school junior I had read and admired many of William Faulkner’s books. I thought I understood … [Read more...]
Sundays in Merida by Author John Scherber – ‘An American Voice in Mexico’
October 5, 2013
I came to Mérida for the jungle. I’d been there before, but not for eight or nine years. Friends had told me the city was changed, full of traffic, noisy, a place now better to skip than to savor. Don’t ruin your memory of it by going back, they said with the look of the informed traveler. It’s got … [Read more...]
Haciendas: Spanish Colonial Houses in the U.S. and Mexico
February 7, 2013
Haciendas: Spanish Colonial Houses in the U.S. and Mexico by Linda Leigh Paul , Author & Ricardo Vidargas, Photographer Haciendas is a noteworthy book portraying traditional and modern hacienda architecture of Mexico and the Southwestern United States. The book features 250 fabulous photos … [Read more...]
Guanajuato, Tierra de Mis Amores By Candace George Thompson, Author
January 9, 2013
Forty-nine years ago this month, I arrived in Guanajuato after a five hour bus ride from Mexico City. I was a few days shy of my 19th birthday, a college student about to start an adventure that would change my life. Over the next three months I lived with an all-female, two-generation Mexican … [Read more...]
Pozos: Life Among the Ruins by JOHN SCHERBER, Author, San Miguel de Allende, Mexico
November 5, 2012
Pozos: Life Among the Ruins Driving up the long rise into Mineral de Pozos, framed by the gray-brown humpbacked mountains once laced with veins of silver and gold, the visitor first sees the stone walls of the cemetery, the panteon, before he enters the town. It seems like a fitting introduction to … [Read more...]
Heather Hess, Freelance Copywriter, Artist and Photographer
November 4, 2012
I am no stranger to butterflies. My home town is Orillia aka Mariposa – the Sunshine Town – the subject of Stephen Leacock’s novel “Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town”, home of Gordon Lightfoot and the Mariposa Folk Festival. I have had a fascination for butterflies my entire life and am saddened to … [Read more...]
Instructions to Butterflies by Monica Rix Paxson
November 4, 2012
While sitting and reading on the sun porch, I heard a lacy black and orange butterfly beating its wings against a closed windowpane right next to an open window. I tried to guide it to the opening, but it resisted me and continued to throw itself against the glass, only higher, out of my reach. I … [Read more...]
Wings and Things by Mark Saunders, Author, San Miguel de Allende
November 4, 2012
My wife is not what one would call outdoorsy. A New Yorker by birth and inclination, she is, in fact, what the Jack Palance character Curly in the movie City Slickers refers to with a snarl as “city folk.” She believes the whole point of evolution was to get out of caves, stand erect, and make one’s … [Read more...]
