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Jun.04.2013
Let your guidebook lead you to the hot spots, then be alert to unexpected glimpses; depths you never dreamed of.
Recently while I was walking along Pino Suarez in Mexico City I came to the SE corner of the Zocaló, a great public space since the days of Aztec rule. This enormous plaza...
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Aug.08.2012
The Stars and Stripes Forever on violins?
When a Mexican friend recently sent me the link to two U.S. Marine Band violinists playing John Philip Sousa’s stirring march, I had to click on this curiosity. I didn’t expect, though, after half a century, to see my young self walking through the...
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Jun.07.2012
Forget Lord of the Flies!
This book with its Neanderthal and Homo Sapiens characters is one of my all time favorites.
I've read it three times.
Why? It grabs me from the first page. This is not science fiction as we know it. It's a work of the highest imagination. The way the Neanderthals move, the...
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Aug.23.2011
Even the stonework and lanes paved with green cantera rock draw only an occasional visitor to Calderones, but for the two thousand people who live there, the town is the center of the world.
To get to this community, home to generations of miners, take the Calderones bus from Embajadoras...
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Feb.02.2011
Guanajuato, in the center of Mexico, is a spritzer city where the wine of culture, beauty and history color infuses the effervescent student atmosphere. The city, five hours north of Mexico City (but accessible directly by plane), is a walker's paradise. You can explore the historic center with...
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Nov.28.2010
El Cafetin, between the San Francisco Church and the Museo Iconografico has outdoor and indoor seating, bagels as well as coffee, and some evenings hosts literary events. For a list describing nine other coffeehouses, see my article at www.associatedcontent.com. The warm sunny weather now is...
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About Rochelle
I’m a writer and anthropologist, skills I combined as the editor of Indians of the Northwest (Discovery Enterprises, Ltd.), an anthology in the words of tribal people. By googling my name, you'll see a half dozen of my speculative and ethnic stories available...