No Plan to Live in Mexico: How I Got Here
The best plan might be NOT to have a plan. I spent my working life doing goals and objectives, setting annual plans and then evaluating whether I met those targets. They became part of my annual performance review. Yet, the serendipity of how my personal life progressed was never a conscious decision. Sometimes I felt […]
Working From Home Has New Meaning: From Oaxaca to North Carolina and Back Again
This blog post is about work, working from home, retirement, immigration reform, and travel on the secluded Oaxaca coast. A hodgepodge. You haven’t heard from me much in the past few weeks and I admit I have been remiss in writing and blog posting. I left Oaxaca at the end of April for the luxury […]
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. […]
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 […]