30 Years of the Altar de Muertos
I placed my first Day of the Dead offering back in 1993. I was 13 back then and a huge fan of Germán Valdez, Tin Tan, a Mexican actor from the Mexican cinema Golden age. His comedic timing, his multi-talented nature – he was a good singer, and a decent dancer – and according to […]
A Brand-New Identity
My son had and accident a couple of weeks ago. He – somehow I am not willing to discuss in this forum – suffered a fall and injured his leg, his elbow, and his neck. I had to take him to an orthopedist who checked him and ordered some X rays to make sure nothing […]
“I don’t like being photographed”
This week I went on vacation to Mexico City, and something funny happened, because I felt like I was coming back home. I had described something similar to this feeling in an old entry of my previous Spanish blog, in which I wrote about how I felt going back to Guanajuato while I was living […]
8 Months and Macro counting
I haven’t posted any entry fully dedicated to my weight loss process in over five months, and I believe it’s about time I do it, for several circumstances that are now coming together. First of all, I stopped the chronicles of my weight loss because from November until the beginning of February my process mysteriously […]
The Happy Dance
I have always believed happiness is not constant. If it were like that, perhaps we would never even notice we are happy, we would just be… in a regular state, I guess. For me, happiness feels like heartbeats – you get peaks of feel-good moments, and when you get lots of those in a row, […]
All about food
So, apparently everything I do lately seems to be related with food… I’ve been experimenting with new recipes, painting watercolor images of food and at the same time restraining my food intake to achieve the 70-kilo mark by July (I’m currently at 81, so still a long way to go…) I read a psychological theory […]