When Anita Strehlow closed Anita’s Animals in May 2017 to return to Germany for health reasons, she left behind a shelter she had run for 20 years and that was in complete disarray.

“Before I arrived at Lunas de Maluri I didn’t believe in God, I didn’t believe in anything. I didn’t want to live.”

Ajijic resident Armando Garcia-Davila, who likes to refer to himself as a “blue collar writer,” moved to Ajijic with his wife, Kathy, in May, 2017, from Santa Rosa, California.

The imposing Biblioteca Publica del Estado de Jalisco Juan Jose Arreola (public library), with its crazy-quilt facade towering over fast-moving traffic on Guadalajara’s far northern fringe near the Telmex Auditorium, is home until September 23 to a fascinating display, crafted by two Italian museographers, that aims to impress and educate the world about the richest and most complete Egyptian royal tomb ever dug up by archaeologists.

Diversity – genetic, linguistic, culinary, biological, commercial – is on the chopping block around the world.

When Kay and Andy Taylor retired in 2012, they bought a fifth wheel RV, sold all their possessions and, along with their two dogs, Harry and Fiona, hit the road.