Do not be alarmed if your friends insist on wearing yellow underwear, sweeping dirt out the front door, walking around the block with their suitcases and then popping 12 grapes in their mouths on the stroke of midnight.

You would expect a delectable, high-priced vegetable to be displayed in a beautiful cloth or attractive basket. But not the chinchayote, which is sold in this part of Mexico only from December to May. 

Although since Covid the Culinary Arts Society of Ajijic (CASA) no longer exists, the CASA Culinary Team still offered the donated dinner that was auctioned off at the Niños Incapacitados special gala earlier this year.

The shortest day and longest night of 2023 fall on Thursday, December 21, coinciding with the winter solstice which will occur at 9:27 p.m. local time.

December 1963 was, as the Four Seasons would later sing, a significant month. 

You don’t need to be a rocket scientist or urban planning expert to understand that the Lake Chapala region is in urgent need of remedies for its nagging traffic issues.