Dear friends of my frivolous ramblings. Forgive me for being a bit offline recently, and I only share this with you to explain my absence and that life's adventures can sometimes be of the most negative kind.<< MORE >>

Adventure at times runs in waves here in Mexico, sort of like waves of nausea when you ingest a bad burrito. So, we've been going through waves of this Immigration nausea - sorry, I meant visa thing now since last November and if anything, it's getting worse - if that's even possible? Even the lawyer who does my visa rolled her eyes the other day when I asked if it had settled down at our local INM office. << MORE >>

Well, I've never actually considered myself an "urban" sort of animal, but I've lived in the big cities and, like a chameleon, blended in and did ok, but I do seem to be trending backward toward my beginnings?<< MORE >>

In the quest for new and varied "adventures" we search and anticipate continually and just when we think we've seen it all another one smacks us in the face, well, not literally but figuratively for sure. << MORE >>

Well, so much for my comedy writing career? << MORE >>

Feliz Ano Nuevo as they say down here, I don't say it because I'm a gringo and when I try to say it, it sounds more like Fleas A-yoyo Newaviario with the accent on all the wrong sylalabales. << MORE >>

At 6:17am December 17, 2004 I lost the single most important thing in my world, Chris my wife. I remember the quiet despair, in those hours after, of going home to the empty house we built together, I remember the hollow days that eventually turned to months, to years because in that moment of losing her, all the dreams, all the plans suddenly meant nothing, they all vanished in that instant, nothing was the same. Last night, again, I felt that same emptiness in the pit of my stomach << MORE >>

It was yesterday morning - 5 years ago Max and I crossed into Mexico at Laredo to begin our new lives.<< MORE >>

Life here is something else - I'm not sure what else, but definitely "something else"? - but as I noted on the weather page today, "if nothing, living in MX will teach you patience and tolerance, you have two choices, you can gently assimilate it - or have it pounded into you forcefully and regularly, your choice. << MORE >>

Why is it always "two's"? Seems months go blandly by and then I get a twofer. << MORE >>