Amazing: My Choice of Food in a Medium-Sized American City

Sitting eating really-worth-eating strawberries and cream in my newly-screened in back patio, idly watching two cardinals facing off on the grass, I reflected on how amazed I am by the…

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Cooking in a Bedsitter

Cooking in a Bedsitter

I learned to cook in a ‘bedsit.’ A bedsit, as bedsitters were generally called, was the English equivalent of an American efficiency apartment. Well, kind of an equivalent. Although bedsits…

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22 Uses for the “Commons” in Guanajuato, Mexico

22 Uses for the “Commons” in Guanajuato, Mexico

El cerro (the hill) began a hundred yards or so above the street where I lived for ten years in the city of Guanajuato, capital of the state of Guanajuato. …

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