Mexican cuisine is not for the weak at heart. Any food genre that is capable of making your throat, mouth, and lips burn for extended periods, invoking fits of hiccoughs, and wreaking havoc on stomachs, should not be taken lightly. Learning to eat Mexican is about adapting to change–slowly. The first change is adapting to […]
Continue ReadingI do not claim to be half as interesting as John Malkovich, but after my experiences in moving to Mexico, I may be just as bizarre. I have been through a remarkable number of changes in a period of about 10 months. Some days I think I’ve weathered the storm with grace and even start […]
Continue ReadingMexican men, like the rest of the world, get their ideas about American women from watching talk shows, soap operas, and movies. Therefore, they think we are terribly easy, unfaithful, and willing to hop into bed with any man who comes along. We all get divorced, none of us want children, and in general, we […]
Continue ReadingIt all started when I took Molly to one of the downtown parks here in Morelia, a park crammed with pretty flowers, spraying fountains and Jacarandas in full bloom. We soon found ourselves enjoying a quiet rest on a shady bench, the aging cathedral partially visible through the tall trees. It was then I noticed […]
Continue Reading“Morelia is a taco town”, Molly remarked over morning coffee a few months ago. I didn’t say anything because I knew her remark wasn’t meant to be critical. It’s just that after living in Morelia for a full year, we had realized that every time we went out for dinner, we always wound up eating […]
Continue ReadingIt was all Molly’s idea. Not unusual. After all, everything we do is always Molly’s idea. This time, she thought it would be nice to invite a priest over for dinner since we were finally settled in Morelia. “Why not?” I asked, realizing that if it didn’t work out I could always remind her that […]
Continue ReadingIt didn’t take us long to fall in love with Mexico, a country where children have great respect for their parents. The parents, in turn, appear to have a great respect for the value of human life. What a great place to raise a family, we agreed, but having done that already, we decided to […]
Continue ReadingI saw My Big Fat Greek Wedding, and I thought, how different could a Mexican-American wedding be? Well, while there are many, many similarities, I overlooked the fact that my wedding is being held in a different country and in a different language. At least in the movie everyone is still in the United States, […]
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Exploring Enrique Metinides’ images is to immerse yourself in those depths of humanity awash in raw emotion, as the 79-year-old photographer has captured some of the most poignant moments to unfold on the streets of Mexico City across the span of five decades. Much like the many accidents Metinides spent immortalizing on film throughout the […]
Continue ReadingWalking the Walk, Talking the Talk O.K. I admit it! I love ‘dichos’ (sayings or proverbs). Not, ‘nachos’ or ‘ponchos’, but dichos! Yes, those little nuggets of folk wisdom distilled down through generations of wise Mexicans. O.K. I developed a taste for sayings in English even before I found their equivalent in Spanish. You know […]
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