Year: 2023

Hospital in the Dark February 2, 2022 Forgive the lateness of this dispatch, but I was delayed. On the 2nd of February, while I was […]

Amber has long intrigued me as a geologic specimen (which I certainly am), at least since I first read Michael Crichton’s Jurassic Park, in which […]

Signs of San Patricios March 16, 2022 I came to this world like me father before, Where for 200 years we had known only war, […]

Benito’s Birthday March 21, 2022 The sun perfectly aligned at its celestial midpoint when Benito Juarez was born, in Guelatao, Oaxaca, thus beginning his rendezvous […]

Grutas de Mamut March 30, 2022 “The Zapatista Caracol 10 in Ocosingo has set up a road block calling for an end to the war […]

Huitepec April 6, 2022 All the Creatures at this Party. We arrive at Eugenio’s cabins just in time for dinner.  The collection of tiny bungalows […]

Semana Santa in San Cris April 12, 2022 This year Palm Sunday, the beginning of Semana Santa (Holy Week), is a bigger day than usual […]

Bloody Pageantry April 18, 2022  “I was just molested by a taxi driver named Jesus. I wish I had his car number and photo but […]

Bottom of the Country April 30, 2022 “San Cris has a very strong energy, it chooses you or not, either everything flows or you are […]

Feast of Santa Cruz de Almolonga May 3, 2022 According to lore, the patron saint of stonemasons is Santa Cruz—Saint Cross.  The name appears to […]