Week 116: Show & Tell 2/Mexican Chronicles 1

In 1994, we chose to take the bus from Nuevo Laredo to Mexico City. Ten years earlier, we had taken the train and had mistakenly bought First Class tickets instead of Special First Class. Special First Class would’ve been like a greyhound bus; instead we rode for 24 hours in a train car packed like [...]

Week 110: Show & Tell 1

Señora Amalia died when I was 10 years old. She was our super old lady next door neighbor, a bit hunched over, hair white as snow, and one of those faces where the nose, eyes and mouth just disappear in a sea of wrinkles. Her and her house both had that smell of [...]