As my husband, Si, and I leave Atzompa, green pottery capital of Oaxaca, we wave down a local taxi. Unknown to us, the taxi is a collectivo, operating much like a bus. The driver collects six fares instead of one …
Why is it that when you tell people you are having a colonoscopy or any procedure, they proceed to tell you about their own negative experience or someone else’s extremely negative experience?: “You do know that doctor punctured my cousin’s …
The station sits almost on the corner of its block, its dusty blue paint unmistakable even in the shadows of the clouds that drift overhead this fading fall afternoon. It is one of the last of its kind – a …