Long Day, Soft Landing to Oaxaca, Mexico — City Mouse, Country Mouse
Life is bimodal. I’m a city mouse in Durham, North Carolina, and a country mouse in Teotitlan del Valle, Oaxaca. Federico says I’m an honorary Zapoteca although I can only say hello and raise a toast in his native language. For the time being, I travel back and forth, with roots in both places with […]
Want to Live in Mexico? Advice from a Wisecracker!
Nobody Knows the Spanish I Speak is a zany memoir by Mark Saunders (Fuze Publishing, LLC, McLean, VA, ISBN 978-0-9841412-8-9), who, with his wife Arlene Krasner, moved to San Miguel de Allende (SMA) shortly after falling in love with the place. The book’s tag line is “Drop out. Sell everything. Move to Mexico. Sounded like a […]
Norma Hawthorne’s 9 Tips for Living in Mexico Successfully (Mas o Menos)
Norma Hawthorne’s 9 Tips for Living in Mexico Successfully (choose your own priority order): Speak the language. Learn to speak the language. Try to learn to speak the language. Keep trying. Hire a tutor. Take a class. Don’t give up and expect Spanish-speakers to understand you! Otherwise, you will stay isolated within the gringo community. […]
Saying Goodbye and Time for Oaxaca
I suspect that there will be coming posts from me like this one that will express feelings rather than reportage about Oaxaca as I separate from my life’s work in four universities and look to the future. Please bear with me! This is the home stretch. My last official salaried paycheck will be mailed to […]
One Way Ticket to Paradise–Oaxaca, Mexico
Four years in the planning and my dream is becoming reality — a one-way ticket to paradise: Oaxaca, Mexico. This is not the Lawrence Welk boring, Dave Loggins choral doo-wap version of A One-way Ticket to Paradise but a raucous, edgy “not knowing what the future will bring” hard-rocking style put out there by the […]
Holiday Gifts: Experiences, Not Things
So much is being written now about gift-giving in this season of caring and thoughtfulness when folks are feeling skittish about their economic well-being. We are looking inward, examining what is most meaningful in life, assessing the the true value of loving relationships and how that translates into expressing our feelings during this special time […]