The Lowly Frog

The Lowly Frog

[Click on BLUE links for sources and information]   For a long time the frogs went on talking, “It’s eerie here! It’s eerie here!” and the bullfrog, after a meditative silence, “I know! I know!” Then the nervous frog again, “It’s eerie here—it’s eerie.” The...
Lucy’s CuCu Cabana

Lucy’s CuCu Cabana

[Click on blue links for further information]   You already know that Alebrijes Make Me Happy.  All of Mexico makes me happy.  It’s a large country (760,000 square miles) but smaller than the contiguous 48 states of the USA (3 million square miles).  Thankfully...
Reading Oaxaca

Reading Oaxaca

“In northern Mexico they work; in central Mexico they think; in southern Mexico they rest.” She was travelling to Oaxaca for a two-year olds birthday party, the daughter of her friend.  Chocolate cupcakes and a wrapped present were in the carry on.  Her eyes laughed...
Alebrijes Make Me Happy

Alebrijes Make Me Happy

A small child is taken to the zoo for the first time. This child may be any one of us or, to put it another way, we have been this child and have forgotten about it. In these grounds – these terrible grounds – the child sees living animals he has never...