Haciendas: Spanish Colonial Houses in the U.S. and Mexico by Linda Leigh Paul , Author & Ricardo Vidargas, Photographer Haciendas is a noteworthy book portraying traditional and modern … [Read more...]
Guanajuato, Tierra de Mis Amores By Candace George Thompson, Author
January 9, 2013 by
Forty-nine years ago this month, I arrived in Guanajuato after a five hour bus ride from Mexico City. I was a few days shy of my 19th birthday, a college student about to start an adventure that … [Read more...]
Pozos: Life Among the Ruins by JOHN SCHERBER, Author, San Miguel de Allende, Mexico
November 5, 2012 by
Pozos: Life Among the Ruins Driving up the long rise into Mineral de Pozos, framed by the gray-brown humpbacked mountains once laced with veins of silver and gold, the visitor first sees the stone … [Read more...]
Marilo Gallery, Studio and Unique 1-of-a-Kind Gift Shop, Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco
November 4, 2012 by
Marilo Gallery is a studio/gift shop in downtown Puerto Vallarta specializing in original, Mexican-made arts and crafts. Rodolfo Rosas Hernandez, resident artist, gives Stained Glass Mosaic Art Demos … [Read more...]
Heather Hess, Freelance Copywriter, Artist and Photographer
November 4, 2012 by
I am no stranger to butterflies. My home town is Orillia aka Mariposa – the Sunshine Town – the subject of Stephen Leacock’s novel “Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town”, home of Gordon … [Read more...]
Instructions to Butterflies by Monica Rix Paxson
November 4, 2012 by
While sitting and reading on the sun porch, I heard a lacy black and orange butterfly beating its wings against a closed windowpane right next to an open window. I tried to guide it to the opening, … [Read more...]
Sandra Nitchie, Artist & Instructor, Jalisco, Mexico
November 4, 2012 by
'Paint Your Soul’, with Sandra Nitchie, Founder of the MONARCH EFFECT and graduate of the Maryland Institute, College of Art in Baltimore, Maryland. The mission of the MONARCH EFFECT is to create … [Read more...]
Wings and Things by Mark Saunders, Author, San Miguel de Allende
November 4, 2012 by
My wife is not what one would call outdoorsy. A New Yorker by birth and inclination, she is, in fact, what the Jack Palance character Curly in the movie City Slickers refers to with a snarl as “city … [Read more...]
Galeria La Manzanilla, La Manzanilla, Jalisco, Mexico
November 2, 2012 by
Galeria La Manzanilla is one of Mexico’s well hidden secrets. The gallery opened its doors in 2003 and since then has been representing a wide variety of expats and regional and nationally known … [Read more...]
A Farmacia on Every Corner © Monica Rix Paxson
October 31, 2012 by
Thinking of relocating to Mexico full or part-time? Wondering where you can find info on how to find a doctor – need information on hospitals – medical insurance? Monica Rix Paxson’s book: The … [Read more...]
