A Retired Teacher in Mexico City

I have long been fascinated by the volcano Popocatépetl (usually referred to as Popo).  The 17,800 foot high peak stands between Mexico City...

How many of you saw the title of this post and immediately knew what is was about?  Yes, good ol' Ludwig von Beethoven, whose Fifth Symp...

The holiday season is upon us.  Tomorrow I will drive down to Columbus to spend Thanksgiving with family. There is one thing that is mak...

I mentioned that on Thursday, when I returned to Ohio from Mexico, the temperature was unseasonably warm.  On Friday it was sunny and the hi...

On Thursday I returned home to Ohio. My flights were on time and uneventful.  Now, at least when flying into Houston, U.S. citizens no lon...

Before leaving Puebla on Sunday, we drove to the modern outskirts of the city to take a ride on "La Estrella de Puebla" (The S...

After watching the folk dancing on the main plaza of Puebla, Alejandro and I did a bit of exploration in the colonial center of this histori...