A few days ago a wayward hippopotamus met its untimely death in the northern part of the Mexican state of Veracruz. It had been legally resi...

Not far to the northeast of the municipality of San Miguel de Allende in the State of Guanajuato there is a smaller municipality named ...

My wife Gina and I spent some time this afternoon at our local "Feria de Alfeñiques" to gather some things for our annual "Dí...

My suegra (mother-in-law) Carmelita has a chile plant growing in a pot on her patio that is more like a small bush than a plant. It provides...

When I first got to know my wife Gina I noticed that whenever we left Irapuato to go to Guanajuato, San Miguel, some other city, just as soo...

This post is dedicated to our friends Suzanne and John of the blog "Living in San Miguel" so that they have an alternative to ing...

I have a friend named Tony in Tomball, Texas who asked me the other day about the origin of the Catholic "Sign of the Cross" where...

Now that you have spent all that time (I hope) studying Spanish vocabulary, verb conjugation, and grammar it is time to put your skills to t...

I thought that some people might be interested in just how high above sea level we live here in the Bajío area of Mexico in the state of Gua...

Now that the weather is cooling off you will see more and more signs that say "Rico Pozole". Mexican Pozole (pronounced poh-SOH-la...