I’m adding the MAP to my list of museums you can see under an hour and not want to kill yourself. There are four rooms, Art and the Sacred, The Essence of Art, Art in the everyday, and the...
Taller Tlamaxcalli’s Toybox
Toys have no nationality, no origin, according to Álvaro Santillán. Children invented toys. That being said, Álvaro seems to have a beginning, a story, a little detail of origin for every item in the Tlamaxcalli toy workshop. the diversity...
A Synagogue Hidden in the Crowd
From the outside it is a building like any other in Mexico City’s historic center – colonial façade and wrought-iron railings curling around the windows. Across the street is the Loredo Park, named for the Catholic church at...
Lucha Libre vs. WWF
I think I may have surprised (and frightened) my girlfriend over the weekend with the vast knowledge I have about professional wrestling. After almost six years living in Mexico and a little over a year in Mexico City, last...
Christmas in Belize
If it’s a balmy 80 degrees outside at the El Secreto resort, it’s at least 100 degrees in the kitchen. I can feel the sweat pouring down the small of my back, but the kitchen staff, in their uniforms,...
Throwing Pots in Belize
On Thursday we visited the San Antonio Womens’ Group in San Antonio, Belize, a few miles from the Hidden Valley Inn, a 7,200-acre resort in the middle of the Belizean pine forest. The chickens crept forward searching for a...
Mexico City’s Deadly Ride
I had no peripheral vision with my cat mask on. NOT a good idea when you’re riding a bike, balancing your camera for the perfect motion shot and surrounded by hundreds of people. For some, the idea of thousands...