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...

It was holiday season in St. Louis when I was maybe five, maybe seven years old. I was very dressed up, wearing my new grown-up capezio...

Several weeks ago, even before I broke my wrist, I was dreading Thanksgiving. As the day got closer, I could imagine the empty feeling...

After being approved for surgery, I was scheduled for ‘Thursday for my broken wrist. I am very familiar with hospitals, starting from...

Oh shit! I should have listened to me when i said be careful when you’re walking on these cobblestone streets. We were having a...

I vividly remember the days after my first husband and I divorced and the feeling of dread that came over me realizing that I was without...

When we first arrived in San Miguel de Allende I was disappointed in how the city looked. The photos I had seen hadn’t captured the...

There is rarely a day here without sunshine. Even in the rainy season, the sun insists on having its moment. It is a kindness that...

Living in San Miguel is like one continuous scavenger hunt. Each item we would like to find goes on the list, and then we go searching. ...

Our friends Sara and Sheila arrived in San Miguel the same week we did. In addition to taking five hours of Spanish a day, they signed up...

Parades, explosive rockets booming from nearby houses in the middle of the night on national holidays, days for local saints,...

Because I’m 75 ,and Jack is 79 and has had some emergency health issues in the past, we decided it would be a good idea to check out the...

Jack, a born and raised New Yorker, is a true food Jew. He knows little about the religion and isn’t interested in the religious...

The wedding was a traditional Catholic Mass held at 4:00 in the lovely Parroquia de San Miguel Arcángel in the center of San Miguel de...

I traded in my three- hour, five days a week class for a much more palatable schedule; three times a week for an hour with a private...

The first time I saw the Jardin in el Centro in the main plaza, in front of the Parroquia, the large, magnificent pink church that can be...