Guess which country has the highest immigration rates to Mexico? According to the Mexican census, Spain held that honor between 1900 and 1940. By 1930, 47,000 Spanish emigrated to Mexico before the Spanish Civil War. However, in the years between 1950 and 2015, Spain moved to second or third place. Then the number one country […]
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Deceptive simplicity is the cornerstone of haiku poetry. How much can we express in three lines, seventeen syllables? From what we see in your contest entries, these snapshots, these Polaroids of poetry can deliver a message in a handful of words. La sencillez engañosa es fundamental en la poesía haiku. ¿Cuánto podemos expresar en tres […]
Read moreHappy International Flamenco Day! To celebrate, I’m sharing photos from a wonderful evening in Granada, Spain our friends provided to our family when we visited in 2013. Srta. Guerrero began dancing when she was three. Her mother taught flamenco at Carmen de las Cuevas. Patricia Guerrero is one of the foremost flamenco dancers in Spain. […]
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A decade ago, a friend told me that she had changed her mind about Friday the 13th; not the movie with lots of ketchup, the calendar date. She decided it would be a day of blessings. I realized she was right, and that convinced me to rewind my tape on the whole affair. We create […]
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The only Spanish-speaking destination where I’ve rented a car is Puerto Rico. On our honeymoon, we arrived in San Juan and then drove in a clockwise circle around the island. We saw El Yunque park, beaches, hot springs, the phosphorescent bay, and the Arecibo radio telescope. That was a different form of travel than I’ve […]
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The year my husband and I lived in Santiago, Chile, we rubbed elbows with locals who sought to amaze us with their English mastery. Evan and I would walk hand in hand through a park and a young man would bellow, “F$%#!” a couple of times. His friends would whistle and clap with delight. He’d […]
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