Fishing along the Michoacan coast has never been boring, even during slow seasons. To start off, there are no marinas to comfortably park your boat and load the fuel. My boat stays on the beach, thanks to a community tractor that drags it in and out of the ocean.

“I’m just trying to help save this endangered culture one bracelet at a time,” says Susana Valadez, founder of the Huichol Center for Cultural Survival and owner of the superbly outfitted Galeria Tanana in the seaside village of Sayulita.

A modest sign above a doorway on a quiet residential street near the Expiatorio church in Guadalajara is all that hints of the activity inside. 

An abstract artist who spent more than 20 years in Guadalajara left several works throughout the city. Now his daughter is working to track them down.

February 14, 2014 would have been my husband Georg Rauch’s 90th birthday. In celebration of his life, I am preparing a birthday show at Quattro Gallery, Colon 9 Ajijic, beginning at 3 p.m.  The exhibit will include a selection of posters from our large collection.

Smiling and laughing are permitted, encouraged and celebrated on Thursday, January 24 – World Belly Laugh Day.