mexpatriate — in the key of steve

According to the Roman Rite liturgical calendar, yesterday was All Saints' Day and today is All Souls' Day. As good Catholics, m...

It is el dia de muertos  in these parts. Or, in a language which I actually understand in some depth -- Day of the Dead. Our streets are ...

I do not have a dog in a lot of fights. Sometimes, I do not even have a guppy in the fight. At this time of year, gringo conversations are...

Technology is one of those double-edged swords. Especially, when finances are involved. At some point in the 1990s, my life became almost ...

It is tempting to call the blogging community a granfalloon. You know the word. One of Kurt Vonnegut's cleverly-invented words for a g...

Back in the 1990s, we used to joke that shoppers were prohibited from leaving Costco until they had spent $100. That tariff has probably r...

Three bags of plastic bottles were dropped on my corner as if they were triplet foundlings -- almost three weeks ago ( bag 'em, danno...