A Retired Teacher in Mexico City

Regular readers of my blog knew that I post something almost every day... occasionally if I have a backlog of things to write about, I will ...

Earlier this year I bought an orchid.  It was the first time I had ever tried to grow one, and I wondered whether it would reflower after th...

Earlier in the week I wrote about the preparations for the Christmas fair on the Zócalo.  On Thursday I went back to see what it looks like....

As you can see from the photo, I have all my Christmas packages wrapped and ready to give to Alejandro's family on Christmas Eve. In Mex...

On the weekends Alejandro and I usually go to a nearby branch a Toks, a restaurant chain that, unlike the Sanborns or VIPS, has not gone dow...

  When I go downtown to Mexico City's  "Centro Histórico" I often stop at a branch of "La Parroquia de Veracruz", a ...

Last week I went downtown and checked out the Christmas preparations on the Zócalo once again. The Christmas lights were all up, including t...