My Fairy-Tale Life, by Steven Boone

For many of us, the winter solstice marks a time to reflect, recharge, and reconnect with the rhythms of nature. For my wife Amy and me, thi...

My heart ached for the land in Oaxaca as we said our goodbyes to return to the USA for a month. The dry season seemed to be hanging on forev...

  Almost as a lark, I looked online at houses listed for sale in the area of the famous south central Mexican city Oaxaca. Most of the bette...

As the saying goes, “the cup runneth over.” When children arrive to our home on Sundays for art projects it is high energy in our otherwise ...

Amy and I moved to our house in the village of San Pedro Ixtlahuaca 331 days ago. It is on the outskirts of Oaxaca, the famous city in south...

 “Vecino” is Spanish, meaning neighbor in English. I have lived in many places over the years and neighbors always influenced my life. Some...

It is one thing to move and find a new address to receive mail, and another to have no address at all. My brother was incredulous when he le...

Our house is magical; it drew us into itself. All the way from New Mexico USA to Oaxaca, Mexico, near Central America.   We have met neighbo...

Oh boy, what a wild and crazy ride it has been for the last three months. And now we are in Mexico, living in the house that brought us here...

  A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves. —Marcel Proust Santa Fe winter Of a sudden, the weather here i...

I am now an immigrant, along with Amy. We have “Residente Permanente” visas from Mexico. It all happened rather suddenly but a huge change i...