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The decades-old trope of our Christmas being too commercial has become a pointless cliché, met with total indifference today.

The Guadalajara Reporter’s big news this week is Ajijic becoming one of Mexico’s vaunted Magic Towns, Pueblos Magicos. It was nominated for the honor three years ago, but came up short.

Are you tired of reading about the latest “studies”? You know, all the investigative testing that is done to prove or disprove whether it is okay to eat dairy products, what to eat instead, when to eat it, how to supplement with vitamins and stuff you never heard of, what the best exercises are, how to manage anger and why you shouldn’t eat eggplant.

These days there seems to be a run on superheroes – creatures of extraordinary powers and bold and courageous actions wearing Halloween costumes.

Celebrations are now the order of the season. They raise serotonin levels and are a compelling reason to become social again. But celebrating these days is not easy.

Needless to say (oh, I’ll say it anyway), most of us know perfectly well that “anything that can go wrong will go wrong.”