Columns

A Midwesterner Moves to Mexico - Eating Out With Kids

Fri, 08 Apr 2016 18:16:35 -0500

The New York Times ran an article last week about a new service that sets up kid friendly areas in various city restaurants for a day. Taking over a whole restaurant or setting aside a room and putting out a welcome mat for kids.

A Midwesterner Moves to Mexico - Hair Envy

Fri, 01 Apr 2016 19:09:48 -0600

I’ve been trying to grow out my hair for 50 plus years.

A midwesterner moves to Mexico - Church Bells

Thu, 24 Mar 2016 17:37:49 -0600

I heard church bells as I was sitting outside last Sunday morning. It was a reminder of one of my favorite pictures that I’ve taken in Mexico.

A midwesterner moves to Mexico - Pick Ups

Fri, 18 Mar 2016 18:29:21 -0600

I have the choice of taking several different routes when I walk to pick up my four-year-old grandson from preschool.

A Midwesterner Moves to Mexico - Blue Rimmed Glasses

Sat, 12 Mar 2016 00:11:20 -0600

So maybe those glasses at Pier One aren’t overpriced after all.

A Midwesterner Moves to Mexico - Little Groceries

Fri, 04 Mar 2016 18:17:50 -0600

There’s a time and a place for Costco. And sometimes a trip to Superama is a good place to walk the aisles – particularly if you’re looking for yellow cheese. But given the choice, I pick one of my little neighborhood groceries every time.

A Midwesterner Moves to Mexico - The Lady on the Corner

Fri, 26 Feb 2016 15:21:53 -0600

I see her every Tuesday and Thursday when I take my grandson to soccer practice. She stands on the corner waiting for the light to change so she can pass through the line of stopped cars offering candies from a small basket that she holds close to her chest.

A Midwesterner Moves to Mexico - Things I’ve Noticed

Fri, 19 Feb 2016 19:46:50 -0600

One of the first things I noticed in Guadalajara was all the OXXOs.

A Midwesterner Moves to Mexico - Valentine’s Day and US elections

Fri, 12 Feb 2016 20:05:22 -0600

When I was eight and in Brownie Scouts, we had a contest to see who could build the best Valentine Box out of a shoe box.

A midwesterner moves to Mexico - Mexican Jumping Beans

Fri, 05 Feb 2016 18:16:49 -0600

We went to Tlaquepaque last weekend. Mainly looking for rugs and furniture that my daughter has been wanting to buy.

A Midwesterner Moves to Mexico - Acclimated and Cold

Fri, 29 Jan 2016 20:48:30 -0600

I’ve been sleeping under two blankets for the last week and a half. Pulling out a throw to cuddle under on the couch when I watch TV.

A Midwesterner Moves to Mexico - The Light and the Dark

Fri, 22 Jan 2016 20:05:04 -0600

It doesn’t get much better than stepping out of a plane in mid-January into the blue sky and bright sunshine of a Mexican afternoon.

A midwesterner moves to Mexico - Crunchy Tacos

Fri, 15 Jan 2016 13:08:03 -0600

Last year when I visited the United States over the holidays, the first meal I sought out was a gas station hot dog. It was something I missed and something I hadn’t yet discovered I could get at my neighborhood OXXO.

A Midwesterner Moves to Mexico - Winter Coats

Fri, 08 Jan 2016 21:11:03 -0600

If you live in the Midwest, “coat” is one of the words you use regularly. Right up there with “winter storms” and “cornfields.”

A Midwesterner Moves to Mexico - New Year Wishes

Thu, 31 Dec 2015 19:06:47 -0600

There are a lot of things that people get right in Mexico.

A midwesterner moves to Mexico - The Christmas Picture

Thu, 24 Dec 2015 19:07:11 -0600

I have a favorite Christmas picture. Taken over 60 years ago, it’s black and white and shows an entire extended family gathered around a Christmas tree that is sparse of branches and decorated with nothing but a few strands of tinsel that were probably saved from the year before.

A Midwesterner Moves to Mexico - Christmas Letters

Fri, 18 Dec 2015 20:30:16 -0600

(One of the things I miss in Mexico is getting mail. This is particularly true in the holiday season when one of my favorite things is receiving my sister’s annual Christmas letter and sitting down with a hot mug of coffee and reading it. It’s a letter that is invariably filled with both humor and hope, written in the true spirit of the season, with roots in lessons that we both learned years earlier.)