A Gringo in Mexico

to see the video Angie's taking swimming lessons this summer. Here is her class. At the end of the class she tried over and over to dive to the bottom of the shallow end of the pool to pick up canicas (marbles). She couldn't quite do it. Of course the ...

to see the video We went to Tuxtla this weekend and I bought Angie a CD from one of those awful Mexican children's telenovelas. She loved the music, played it for hours, and then dragged me in to dance with her in front of her mirror. I look like a ...

to see the video More footage from my documentary-in-the-making about the Corpus Cristi fiesta in Suchiapa Mexico. Here is a couple of from an interview I did with my friend Mariano who is a maskmaker in Suchiapa and makes many of the masks used in the ...

to see the video This is a clip from a project I'm working on, a documentary about the Corpus Cristi fiesta in Suchiapa Mexico. I have hours of tape of the fiesta, the dances and processions. This year I started interviewing people: participants, ...

to see the video Well, it's been a big week. Angie and Helena both finished up their school and my wife Rocio and her sister Aurora both received their Masters Degree in Education. Rocio teaches English at a prepa and Aurora teaches history at a private ...

to see the video Murder, incest, self-abuse, amateur theater.... Hey, at least there are no bunnies. My other daughter Helena is finishing the first year of prepa (Mexican equivalent of high school). The final project for her English class was to put on ...

to see the video My five year old daughter Angie just finished prescolar 2 here in San Cristobal de Las Casas (the Mexican equivaleny of kindergarten). As part of the celebration her class put on a short show. It had to do with all the animals in the ...