It’s been a while since I last wrote but I’ve been really busy and recently sick with ‘the revenge’ and time has just flown. Busy may seem like an oxymoron here in Mexico, since our perception in America is of a more laid back existence which is still true to some extent, except for us crazy gringos and some hardworking Mexicans. To start with, I volunteered to help the San Miguel Author’s Sala (www.sanmiguelauthors.com) which has recently absorbed the annual Writer’s Conference scheduled in February. I’ve committed myself to selling their book [View Full Entry]

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This has been a very exciting week for us, and especially me! Last weekend we were invited out with our friends Maggie and Gene to a gallery in the country about 45 minutes from San Miguel. The gallery is called Galeria Atotonilco, and is owned by a ceramic artist named Mayer Shacter. He and his author wife Susan Page (Why Talking Is Not Enough, How One of You Can Bring the Two of You Together, The Eight Essential Traits of Couples Who Thrive, If I’m So Wonderful, Why Am I Still Single, and The Shortest Distance Between You and a Published [View Full Entry]

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Its 6:30 Sunday morning and there’s a cacophony of fireworks in the distance: a common sound in Mexico in the otherwise quiet pre-dawn hours. Last night, in a small cement ring not far from our condo, there was a bullfight. Dignitaries had been flown in on helicopters that came and went throughout the afternoon. On our way out of town we saw tables being set up with stark white tablecloth’s outside the Bull Ring alongside the highway for the dinner served after the fight: a splash of sophistication against a backdrop of dirt and dust. Fortunately for the bulls, there is [View Full Entry]

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We've been officially living in San Miguel now for one week. My husband Doug and I arrived last Sat. after a long and hot drive from Cave Creek, Az, across boring Texas and one tire blow-out, down to Laredo which seemed like the safest border crossing at the moment, and then across the vast, hot, unchanging desert that is part of Mexico until finally we stopped at a little 1930's style hotel called Las Palmas Midway Inn in Matehuala to recuperate a bit. We decided to treat ourselves to this cute hotel just off the highway. It was highly recommended as [View Full Entry]

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We woke up to a brisk Sunday morning with dark ominous thunder clouds and a nice breeze. My favorite kind of day after coming from the hot, uneventful Arizona days. We ate a great breakfast of farm fresh eggs (the kind that are different colors and sizes we picked up at a local organic restaurant), with home-made cilantro pesto sauce, sauteed mushrooms and onions along with some fresh organic goat cheese and some smoked salmon from the nearby Costco, all wrapped in a warm tortilla. After breakfast we headed to a place where people take their dogs for a walk: a [View Full Entry]

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