My Fairy-Tale Life, by Steven Boone

  The shop is set back from the main street of Atzompa, a village on the outskirts of Oaxaca, famous for its pottery. A broad parking lot in...

  It is like surfing a big wave, moving to Mexico. I have been swept along, thrilled to be in each moment, feeling I could fall dangerously,...

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...

  The mid wife looked up at me from where my newborn child lay and asked, “Do you want to cut the cord?” It was a special moment in the livi...

He called on New Year day around dinner time but my phone was turned off. When I saw I had a message from him, at 10:30 PM, I was surprised ...

 “The more you want, the more you lack.” Five decades after hearing the sentence in my freshman college philosophy class, the words have sta...