Pets are not people, not more worthy of life than humans. I distinctly remember experiencing reverse culture shock to an extreme when I came home for a quick vacation during my teaching stint in Honduras. Fresh off the plane, I went to one of my brother’s lacrosse games. I overheard person aft[...]
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Drug Trafficking and Fear
If fear is where all faith begins, Mexico has the potential to understand faith like never before. Fear is what kept me from writing this two weeks ago. Fear is just as common in Mexican life as tiled counter tops and concrete floors. Recently, it’s been creeping up from deep, deep down. Creep[...]
Double Pull
At minute 38, Mexico scored the first goal against South Africa. The students watching the game went wild. But then the referee retracted it. Off sides. The emotion went one from one extreme to the other. “Boooo!” cried our middle schoolers whose morning classes were canceled to particip[...]
May 28th, 2010 - 11:19 am § in Around Town, Mexico
On My Toes
I’m in a dangerous place. Not because of the drug war going on around me. Nor because I’m 30 feet up a rock face of El Potrero Chico. Not because I’m hanging by a 10-millimeter-wide chord on my handy dandy harness. It’s dangerous because it’s comfortable. The comfort zo[...]
