Ready?

I think I’m ready to start writing again. In 2019, my father died. And we all know what happened in 2020 and 2021. Oaxaca needed to rest, not to have more people discovering it. I think, both Oaxaca and I are ready, things might be different this time around. But keep your eyes and ears…

Guelaguetzafication

Roundabout when I was a senior in high school or maybe a freshman in college I set a life goal for myself of coining a phrase. I knew you couldn’t force a term into existence and hope it will stick so I knew I had to just wait. I think now, in the week of…

Guadalupe Cuatepec

Guadalupe Cuatepec, Oaxaca. If you’re looking to get off the beaten track, this is the place for you. This town with a population of little more than one hundred people is located near Suchitepec, which is near Miltepec, which is near Huajuapan, in the far north-west corner of the state of Oaxaca.  There are a…

September 19, 2018

I’m not ready. Tomorrow there will be a city-wide drill, and I’m not ready. I thought I was. I wrote about the September 7th quake and it helped to remember, lay it out in words so I can send it off and no longer hold it in. Over the past year, I’ve talked about it…

Guelaguetza

Wait-I thought this was beyond the known, the Guelaguezta is probably the most well known tourist extravaganza in the whole state–isn’t it? Why yes, it is. And strangly traditional and untraditional, but maybe some other time I will post about Loma Bonita’s contribution to the Guelaguezta, developed just a few years ago. Today I just…

First blog post

This is the excerpt for your very first post.