As told to Shelley Dale by Juan Quezada Illustrated by Shelley Dale Norman Books (Santa Monica, CA 90403) Here in Ajijic on a cold night a week or two ago, my nine-year old Mexican daughter Gabriela and I curled up in a couple of wool blankets and read to each other. Gaby held in her […]
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Robert Nelson’s Boomers in Paradise: Living in Puerto Vallarta, profiles fourteen “baby boomers” who now reside in Puerto Vallarta, The book, though, will be of interest to any expatriate (or would-be expatriate) whether or not they live in Vallarta. Nelson has lived in the “Jewel of the Mexican Riviera” for six years. As he eased himself into […]
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Driving Baja: A Guide for First Timers By Rachel McMillen Trafford Publishing, 2009 Available from Trafford Books: Paperback Driving Baja: A Guide for First Timers tries to answer questions that first-time Snowbirds who are thinking about driving (perhaps with RVs) down the Baja are likely to ask: “…could we really do it? Is it safe to […]
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San Miguel de Allende: A Place in the Heart – Expatriates Find Themselves Living in Mexico By John Scherber Outskirts Press, Inc., 2010 Available from Amazon Books: Paperback I like to read about the daily lives of ordinary people, why they live where they do, what they do with their days, how place — sometimes new place — affects them, […]
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Moving to Mexico’s Lake Chapala: Checklists, How-To’s, and Practical Information and Advice for Expats and Retirees By Lisa L. Jorgensen Mexico Expat Press, 2012 Available from Amazon Books: Paperback This book really does tell you about everything you need to know if you are planning to move to Lake Chapala, one of the most popular retirement […]
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MEXICO SUNLIGHT AND SHADOWS – Short Stories & Essays by Mexico Writers Edited by Mikel Miller with Michael Hogan and Linton Robinson Egret Books (egretbooks.com) Available on Amazon in Paperback (here) and on Kindle (here) Over the past ten years I have published reviews of over a hundred books about, or set in, Mexico, and so I […]
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Something for Nothing By Robert Richter Publisher: Dark Oak Mystery Series, 2015 Paper: $14.95 US Kindle: $2.99 US Robert Richter’s new novel, Something for Nothing, is his third featuring Cotton Walters, ‘not your ordinary roving gringo’, who is called Algo by his Mexican buddies, shortened from the Spanish word for Cotton, algodón. Although Cotton prefers ‘a […]
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Living at Lake Chapala By Judy King Mexico Insights Books, 2013 Available from Amazon Books: Paperback Judy King’s Living at Lake Chapala is a must have book for any expatriate living at Lake Chapala, and it is a very useful book for any expatriate anywhere in Mexico. It is a book to keep beside the bed, or on the coffee […]
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Dear Rolly, You have been a bright light for many thousands of people over the years and on February 25th, 2015, your light dimmed on this plane and began to shine brightly in the next. For myself, I am sad. I am sad that even though we talked on the telephone sometimes and exchanged emails and […]
Continue Reading Rituals and traditions can provide a sense of place and timelessness. They offer us the opportunity of feeling connected to what has gone before and what will continue through the corridors of time. It seems to me that of the three countries in North America, Mexico has developed a culture that has some of the […]
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