Yellow catfish stew and red coconut bread are two more delicious treats we can enjoy in this little town. It had been years since I last enjoy this dish and this dessert. While my brother prepared the

This year is coming to an end and I can't help thinking about how wild a ride it has been. This platform has been a determining factor in helping us cope with all the difficulties and look at the bright

Hoplosternum littorale or conchi'o (Shelly) as we call it is probably one of the weirdest Fish in the world. Its orangish meat is covered by a hard shell that looks like an armor. It is a river/gulf Fish

I have to hit the trail tomorrow. In the last four weeks, I have traveled back and forth home more times than I did in the last 8 years. In the last years, my mother either visited us or stayed at two

I Un pueblito pintoresco de contrastes y de encantos, sumido en risas y llantos luce caricaturesco. Si no fuera tan grotesco el paisaje de pobreza, podría alguien con ligereza afirmar que es muy bonito,

I remember stories my mother told me when I was a kid about the even harder times they had when they first moved to this neighborhood in the late 60s. It was called Bella Vista (gorgeous view), and it

As I mentioned in my previolus post/rant, after a nightmare at a nearby hospital and the impossibility of a surgery to fix her broken leg, we took my mother home. There was a time, back in the days when

So much depends upon a red bank account; as useless as a strangling appendix. Source Useless Banking I talked to my mother today, after a couple of days without news from her due to a blackout that totally

This is my entry to @mariannewest’s 3-Part Weekend Freewrite. A true story that somehow fit into this crazy three-part puzzle. Details here. Prompt sentences in bold italics. Source Crossing "Okay,