Juan Roberto’s garden was his pride and joy.  It was the pride and joy of the neighborhood, too, and no one went hungry or without the simple pleasure of freshly cut flowers. It was where he began each day and ended each night; tending to the leaves and vines, pinching off/… Read full post »

A lake, mountains, an ancient village, flowers, a good meal; one could be content with that.

What continues to surprise is often what we don’t expect to see, that set amidst a new town or experience, can change a singular moment into a rush of memories. I suppose that… Read full post »

My husband died at home in June of 2002 from ALS, Lou Gehrig's Disease.  He was the greatest joy of my life. To have found it once was a miracle, to expect it twice...

This is a love story.  And, a story of thanks.

When It Is Time To Go 

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 "bleeding hearts"

So I’m sitting in my patio garden somewhere in Colonial Mexico, surrounded by dilapidated pink stone walls, crumbling in that old world charm sort of way, the carved cement fishes’ mouth regurgitating into the waters of the Italianate fountain,… Read full post »

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From the Fiction Pool ~ A Story from a Faraway Mountain Village                                 … Read full post »

Reported from San Miguel de Allende, State of Guanajuato, Mexico 

Rumors, Speculation and Fear: San Miguel de Allende Copes with the Spread of Media-Fueled Alarm, Not H1N1 Flu Virus     

 For the last several days, I have watched the systematic shutting down of this… Read full post »

Zocalo: San Miguel de Allende    

Photo: Lucy Nieto, Courtesy: Flickr 

My Sacher Torte with Wesley   

Dodging drums, the half-naked bodies and colorful feathered headdresses of the Concheros dancers celebrating in the zocalo, we hurriedly made/… Read full post »

A Fiction Story from Mexico ~

Photo courtesy: MiMundo.org @ Flickr

Not even the sound of mariachis serenading a wedding posada along her street got her to run up to the roof terrace where before, she would breathe in the lively music and the energy of the revelers… Read full post »

photo courtesy: Joven_60 @ Flickr

Regarding Mexico: Biased News, Half-Truths and Fear Mongering Fuel Paranoia of All Things South of the Border 

Not the Whole Story 

The U.S. media and federal government have stirred up a toxic cauldron media blitz that has been force-feeding… Read full post »

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Perhaps this already exists; God knows I’ve been out of the loop for a long time.  But why aren’t there “professional daters” – a surrogate who can step in before an actual date, test the waters, ask pertinent questions, demand to see current medical records, admini/… Read full post »

                                Reflections of a Barefoot Wanderer

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A Barking Man, a Parrot who thinks it’s a Rooster, Drama Cat, Origins of Laughter, Beginnings and Endings, Marking Time by Church Bells

A Barking Man and a Parrot who thinks it’s a Rooster

Dog barking in San Miguel de Allende is as incessant as the church bells.  The town/… Read full post »

Getting here from there is nothing short of a milagro.  Getting anywhere from Maine is a test in patience, resilience, and a strip search of your sanity.  One might call it Sanity Profiling; if you have any trace of it left as you flee the remoteness and bitter cold, you will… Read full post »