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As someone who prefers receiving practical over superfluous gift items, I was deeply grateful to Santa for delivering a useful tool for grooming my family’s four hairy canines.

It’s customary for people to kick off a new year by drawing up resolutions and goals for the coming 12 months.

As a cold front swept across Mexico throughout the week, nighttime temperatures here in the world’s almost best climate have plummeted.

With December 25 fast approaching this week, I got to thinking about the local holiday customs that have been scratched off the calendar this year.

The Christmas season is usually a joyful time for most people here and elsewhere around the globe.

Will inhabitants of Ajijic Mágico be forced to erase the rainbow-hued building facades and scores of decorative murals that put such a distinctive stamp on the village and repaint the place in a matching color scheme?