By:  Lisa Coleman I’m sure you’ve heard “when in Rome…. do as the Romans do,” but when stepping into a foreign country it’s really worth considering these words a bit more carefully. The saying originated in 387 A.D. when St. Augustine arrived in Milan and observed the Catholic Church did not fast on Saturday like [...]

David Simmonds It seems like a simple enough question, doesn’t it? You are at point in your life when a major change is possible. You’ve traveled to a few places in Mexico, kicked back on the beach at sunset with a cold cerveza and thought “I really like this place – the weather is perfect, [...]

By: Lisa Coleman Mexico recently stepped onto the world stage, and this time it was for all the right reasons. It’s no secret the headlines don’t do Mexico many favors, but perhaps the tides are turning. Perhaps there will be some much needed focus on the good news in Mexico… because there IS good news… [...]

By David Simmonds The Kids It was the summer of 1980 when David Lynch, a special-ed teacher from Long Island, New York, traveled to Tijuana with some others to volunteer in a colonia by the municipal dump. As David tells the story, the kids in the colonia were the children of the “trash pickers”, or [...]

By: Lisa Coleman I know this is an ongoing topic on our blog and many others, but since I just returned from Mexico, it seems completely relevant to me. I had lunch with friends today and was talking all about my trip, and, of course, the topic quickly jumped to the violence in Mexico. This [...]

By: Lisa Coleman My friends (who shall remain nameless to protect them from further ridicule) are crazy about “Mexican” food, or what they believe to be something that originated south of the border. When I get dragged to an evil chain restaurant, I usually settle for chips and salsa, as I can’t bring myself to [...]

By: Lisa Coleman Travel host Peter Greenberg’s “Mexico: The Royal Tour” makes its debut tonight and Thursday on PBS channels across the country. A number of my friends attended the preview at the Guggenheim in New York, and several more are at tonight’s event in Los Angeles. With Mexico’s President, Felipe Calderon, as his guide, [...]