A Retired Teacher in Mexico City

In 1519 the Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés with his small band of soldiers landed on the gulf coast of Mexico.  Lured by tales of the ri...

The prospect of seeing the lunar eclipse here in Mexico City did not seem good.  Monday afternoon clouds moved in and in the early evening t...

Yesterday was Palm Sunday.  Alejandro and I were invited to the birthday party of one of his friends.  We had some time to kill (nobody in M...

In my previous post, I talked about our visit to "la Peña de Bernal", the huge monolith of rock in the state of Querétaro.  From t...

Saturday Alejandro and I planned to take one of our one-day excursions outside of Mexico City.  However, we had our doubts that we would be ...

Keeping a blog has resulted in some unexpected benefits.  Those of you who follow my blog regularly know the story of how my posts on geneal...

Yesterday was Alejandro's birthday.  I went with him to the office because I figured the day would be more about eating than working.  S...