Christmas angels – a highway story in Mexico

In this holiday season, I want to share an experience that truly demonstrates the spirit of Christmas. You wouldn’t believe the inventiveness, perseverance, kindness and generosity of Mexicans when somebody is in trouble. While recently traveling through Mexico, my friend Hart Cowley and I, Gerry Green, had stopped my van at the side of the […]

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Suspicious stranger visits a rural taco stand

The other day Deovijilda Lara, who owns a tacos al vapor stand in a nearby pueblo Mercado Municipal, was regaling me with tales of her family’s Christmas last year. These mostly had to do with comically inappropriate gifts, the drunken, hilarious behavior of relatives and friends, punctuated, of course, with a few dark occurrences — a car accident, a […]

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