No towers or sky-scrapers loom above.  I know of no elevators and can’t think of a building that has more than five floors.  Yet I live in a vertical city.  Guanajuato spills colorfully down the sides of a canyon.  The streets, “callejones” wind up and down with labyrinth-like unpredictability.  It’s beautiful, enticing and sometimes challenging. [...]

My father’s voice came through the phone as if he were next door, not 4,000 miles away.  “Are you fluent yet?” he asked.  Knowing that I couldn’t say yes made me feel jealous of his ability. He took two years of Russian when he was in college and can still hold a conversation.  College for [...]

Your planning the trip, you know your going to Hawaii and your excited.  Now you have to ask yourself, what kind of vacation is this going to be?  See, to me, there are two types.  There’s that vacation that everyday you have something planned and you need to squeeze as much sightseeing in as you [...]