Oaxaca-The Year After

Every village has a pantheon, a cemetery and each is different, reflecting the nature of the people in the village. Here are two distinctly ...

Back to Teotitlan del Valle for mole negro, the traditional meal for the second day of Muertos.  And once again, we were so lucky to have Do...

  In Teotitlan del Valle, each day of Muertos has a different traditional meal that must be made.  Today, the first day, it is these incre...

  Every year I drive around to various villages to see the new murals for the muerteadas and for Muertos in general. So today I was in the ...

As Oaxaca gets ready for El Dia de los Muertos, Day of the Dead, there are fields filled with flowers that will soon decorate the ofrendas, ...

Feliz cumpleaños!

The fabulous Danzantes del Plumas from Teotitlan del Valle.

I flew up from Oaxaca to attend the 75th birthday celebration of high school classmate, Paul Grogan .  Paul is, to a great part, responsible...

The Flor de Piña dance is one of Oaxaca's most popular dances. It is always fun to see the local folkloric groups perform. This from ...

Ah yes, my favorite dance, the Jarabe Mixteca.  I love going to the guelaguetza in Reyes Etla every year.  It is such a beautiful setting wi...

  Today was the first day of another fabulous culinary extravaganza, Sabores de Oaxaca, in the Plaza de la Danza.  Free admission and everyt...

Today there was a  cabalgata in the city, a traditional trail ride with hundreds of horses and riders... and a few dune buggies.  These hors...

Look at all these beautiful plants!  All from the vivero in nearby San Lorenzo Cacaotepec.  Yes, more bugambilias to replace the ones that s...

2314 miles or 3728 km.... So happy to see the China Pearl reopened.  It was closed for a few years and I missed having dim sum there. Why?  ...

  There always some street art that speaks to the current situation.

Well, I just was.  The house has been closed for a while.  So when I climbed up the dark stairs and put my hand on the newel.  Wow! .. What ...

I'm sure there is a message in there somewhere, no doubt a balm for these trying times.... but damned if I know what it is.

These two Oaxacan faces are from posters in the city.  They gave me food for thought.  Which one is closer to the way I am?  Probably, more ...

    As I said a couple of days ago, how wonderful it is to be back in Oaxaca.  As we all know, and as all those tourists filling the streets...

  It's good to be back in Oaxaca.  Even though I've been down here for almost twenty years, I still think of Boston as home and mayb...

I'm sure it is just me, but when I saw this installation in the city, it struck me as a comment on..., I dunno, how the reds and blues s...

The Flor de Piña dance from the Papaloapan region of Oaxaca is one of the most popular dances in the state. This performance in the small ...

I love all the guelaguetzas.  From the official ones (and unofficial ones) in the city, to the smaller ones in the villages, they each have ...

July is the best month of the year in Oaxaca, The rains have come, it's beautiful.  And there are so many wonderful events and things to...