Whatever city I go to, I feel at home in a theater. But it had been a dry spell for live theater in San Miguel, and I was feeling its...

Sometime between the time that my book was published in April and we moved to Mexico in July, Naomi Shihab Nye, outstanding poet and...

in January the immigration officer wrote “30” on our visas, which meant we could only stay in Mexico for one more month. “You’ve got to...

Knowing how much Jack and I love sampling Mexican dishes, my tutor Lety invited us to join her and Susana, her sister, and their mother...

This week was Semana Santa, Holy Week. The city streets teemed with an up-tick of visitors from all over Mexico mingling with local...

Alicia, our housekeeper and now cook, told me that her daughter was going to be a waitress at a new bar-restaurant and that she, Alicia....

i no longer care much about my birthday, but nor do I dread it. Jack, who is still a kid at heart about his own birthdays, won’t hear of...

Jack has not learned Spanish other than saying a few words like hola, como estas, and bien. He gets by with gestures and facial...

Atotonilco is only a 20 minute drive from San Miguel. From the highway exit, the main road turns left for half a mile , leading to a...

The first time I learned of San Miguel de Allende was when I heard about the International Writers’ Conference held in the city. It is...

Paco arrived on time to pick up my son to take him to the airport, and I managed to tell Stephen goodbye without showing the tears that...

Yesterday Jack and I went looking for a kitchen store for a second set of measuring spoons. Jack found an address online for a kitchen...

Last Saturday was the first time Candida cried in front of me. She was talking about her son Paco, whose wife has MS and has recently...

There are 450 restaurants listed in San Miguel. That number doesn’t include the small food stalls found on many corners, or home...

San Miguel is a dog town if ever there was one. You see them everywhere, everything from tiny chihuahua style breeds dressed in winter...

St Louis is my hometown where I was born and lived until I was 53 years old. But Home is where my family is, and for the past 16 years,...

Our friends Andrea and Paul Kane from Frederick came to visit us in San Miguel for a week in early November and fell in love with the...

We had planned on a quiet Christmas Eve at home, in anticipation of Doug’s arrival with his kids on Christmas day. But when he called to...

It certainly does feel increasingly like Christmas here, in spite of the warm weather and the lack of standard Christmas carols playing...

Candida invited Jack and me to come to dinner at their home last Sunday and Jack reluctantly agreed to go. He was worried that it would...