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Linda Laino

Remember 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 Laino

The 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 Laino

How to Trip and Fall Gracefully: Cultivating Patience South of Border

A 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 Laino

The Polite Pass: An Anatomy Of A Word

This 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 Laino

Death Here And There And My Mother's Two Deaths

I 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...