Linda LainoJan 26, 2021Remember Sundays?Sunday hike in Mexico As I was walking to meet friends for a hike in the small Mexican town where I live this morning, I mindlessly noted...
Linda LainoAug 4, 2019The Corner Store is Alive and Well in Mexico: La "tiendita" and la "papelería"In the town where I live in Mexico, most of the stores are about the size of a walk-in closet. La tiendita de la esquina (also known as the
Linda LainoJul 27, 2019How to Trip and Fall Gracefully: Cultivating Patience South of BorderA walk on a dusty road with friends. (photo: Evelyne Pouget) I fell in love with Mexico on my first trip in 1989. I was on my honeymoon...
Linda LainoJun 20, 2018The Polite Pass: An Anatomy Of A WordThis essay was originally published in Elephant Journal in 2015 Pase or Pasele are words I hear many times during my day here in Mexico....
Linda LainoOct 28, 2017Death Here And There And My Mother's Two DeathsI wrote this piece when mother had died just weeks after Dia De Los Muertos in 2012. It became a kind of eulogy at her funeral, and was...