Last night while it was raining so hard I couldn't run down the street with my computer and camera, I flipped on the TV in Xiomara's house and landed in 1950s America. The Rebel Cats "Mala Influencia" [https://www.youtube.com/wat…
This was “The Beast” that brought a whiteboard that will stretch across an entire wall in the school, along with books, educational games, and other school supplies. Why? Because, despite the torrential downpour last night, despite the roads bein…
I think there is no better place in El Sauce than Rio Grande, a river about 15 minutes by truck outside the town. My first time there Rio was not so sweet; I gulped down some water and had a marathon vomit session worthy of a "Jackass" f…
10 a.m. Friday. Go time. Heading up to Las Minitas in the pick-up with a bookcase, $150 in books and games and other learning creativity things, and we expect about 60 members of the community to meet us there after we've stealthily arranged th…
Last night was karaoke in La Marca, one of the few bars in El Sauce. Sean and I sang "Die Die My Darling" by The Misfits, back in the good old days before Danzig left and when he still had a neck. I am a terrible singer. I don't car…
Nicholas is a walking movie poster. I took this while he was watching his wife teach students how to make tortillas on a tour for the eco-tourism cooperative in Las Minitas.…
"Your stories are getting crazier, you know." Bob told me that today and I thought about it, and thought, well, maybe, but living them it does not seem so. Last week, a friend introduced me to his friend, who rode up on a black dirt bike…
These kiddos get to walk into their own preschool, with a bookshelf and books and laminated learning maps and games and supplies for crafts for their imaginations this Friday! Someone from the community in Las Minitas is building 2 doors by hand:…
A few weeks ago, I learned how to make tortillas in Alcides' house. Or, rather, his wife tried to teach me. Mine was still burnt on one side and an off-kilter circle. They gave it to me to eat with a hard-boiled egg (a first here) and an enchi…
