A Retired Teacher in Mexico City

On Sunday Alejandro and I went to Mexico City's most famous boulevard, Paseo de la Reforma. The thoroughfare was closed to traffic, fill...

My neighbors across the hall decorated their door with a witch, spiders and webs, and a sign saying, "Happy Halloween".   I didn...

  This week I set up an "ofrenda", the altar which Mexican families place in their homes in memory of departed loved ones for the ...

As you saw from the videos and photos in the last post, the "alebrije" parade had a very informal mood, almost like a small-town c...