Kelly's sister Alexandra has been visiting us recently, and she has quite a few friends in the charming small town of Sayulita, which is on the Pacific coast, not too far from Puerto Vallarta. So we took off for a few days. I'll do another article about the beautiful place we stayed. But first, here are scenes from a walk we took on our first morning. These two young women were working at a coffee...

I recently came across a website that you shouldn't go to if it will gross you out. The alternative dictionaries site has two pages of coarse Spanish slang and usually indicates which country or countries the slang is used in. The link takes you to the page where all the words are listed. I was dismayed to see quite a few words I thought were innocuous on the list, but happily when I read their def...

When our friends Janet Woodman and Kizzen Laki were here from Colorado back in January, Janet did this watercolor from the malecon in the city of Chapala, looking west along Lake Chapala. I was going to put it up on the blog then, but somehow it slipped by me. I just now noticed it on my hard drive and said, "Aha!" So here it is. I sometimes wish I could draw or paint; Janet says she gets...

Recently I did an online interview about living in Mexico. I just wrote answers to a variety of questions. Here is the link: http://mexicorealestateinvestment.org/2008/06/16/interview-with-rosana-hart-author-of-mexico-with-heart/ It's a website about real estate investing in Mexico, done with a lot more thought than you typically see in that field, it seemed to me. You might want to look around a l...

Yesterday I  had the opportunity to go to a baby shower for a young Mexican woman I know. The printed invitations requested punctuality, so I turned up at 4:15 for a 4 PM event and was still the first guest to arrive. The pregnant woman wasn't there yet, as it was a surprise for her, though when she and her husband arrived, she didn't seem astonished. Maybe a hint had leaked out. I wonder if all M...