My neighbors: Ángel & La Chata
“Is that a pig?” That is the question that Ángel hears the most often when he takes his 2 1/2-year-old, black as…
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My neighbors – Sr. Ruiz
When Sr. Ruiz married his wife in 1948 she was only 16. They couldn’t find anyone to perform the service…
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Mapping La Roma
After months working on my guide to living in my neighborhood, I know that mapping La Roma is a project…
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Happy Labor Day
This morning we saw these four in the Río de Janiero park. Some members of a band called the Oaxaca…
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Mornings in the Marvelous Mercado Medellín
I can’t think of any U.S. market like the ones in Mexico except Pike Place with its stands selling trinkets…
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Taller Tlamaxcalli’s Toybox
Toys have no nationality, no origin, according to Álvaro Santillán at Taller Tlamaxcalli. Children invented toys. That being said, Álvaro…
