“It seems to me that the rules and regulations for a same sex marriage are much like those for many other bureaucratic processes in Mexico. Just when we thought we knew the rules, they changed.”

A small Guadalajara business will soon be heading into its third year designing and selling creatively reworked industrial castoffs.

The chic and the earthy mingle every Saturday afternoon at the upscale Andares centro comercial with a pleasant farmers market or tianguis that draws a crowd to the north edge of town with offerings of organic produce and artesanal prepared foods.

“This ain’t your momma’s Junior League,” Terrill Martinez, the Vice President for Membership of the Guadalajara Junior League’s new board, says laughingly, quoting a phrase she heard recently at a League training meeting.  “This organization has changed so much in the last several years, and especially here in Jalisco.  We are working locally to get the word out to women that the Junior League is more open, more exciting and more inclusive than ever before in its history.”

Controversies and scams related to the federal energy provider, the Comisión Federal de Electricidad, are a stye in the public eye these days.

Among the hundreds of tequilas on the local market nowadays (not to mention the international brands), how can a novice taster select the best?  Trust a chemical engineer to know the secrets of the trade, from agave planting to final labeling – as I learned on a recent boozy afternoon in the Tlaquepaque tequila boutique “El Buho.”