This morning I read a little item in the paper by my friend Armando Fuentes Aguirre in his column "Mirador" ("Observer"...

My little step-grandson, is also my godson and we usually call by his nickname, "Chiqui" (CHEE-key), which is short for "chiq...

In the last day or so there has been a very large sun spot called "active region 1429" that is producing a coronal mass ejection ...

Recently I wrote about two boys named Pichicuás and Cupertino  playing marbles. I theorized that the boy named Cupertino was in one way or ...

Losing your marbles... Everyone who knows me knows that I like to sing and whenever I am singing, then people know that I am happy. I str...

Today we are celebrating the 465th anniversary of the founding of the City of Irapuato where I live in the State of Guanajuato in Central M...

Every now and then we get a winter season here in Guanajuato that includes a week of clouds, low temperatures, and rain. When this happens e...

On many occasions when I am wandering through the market and I stop to chat with one of the vendors, in order to break the ice I say: ¿P...

恭喜发财   (gōngxǐ fācái) Happy Chinese New Year! The Year of the Dragon . In Mandarin it is " Gong Xi Fa Cai "   (pronou...

Last year at this time I decided to try a new type of New Year's resolution and allow myself to choose only one word to concentrate on i...