Natalie Taylor

Visiting Croatia I found a link to Mexico along the Adriatic. Not far from Dubrovnik, in the turquoise-colored sea, lies the island of...

That’s dread of Friday the 13th, folks! Now let’s look at how this silly fear got started. Most think that it has to do with the Last...

Natalie Taylor This month we move toward a major celebrations in Mexico—Cinco de Mayo—Fifth of May. In the US there is confusion about...

Mario Moreno Reyes was born in Mexico City, in 1911; one of eight children of an impoverished family. Growing up in a tough neighborhood,...

Any visitor or resident of San Miguel will notice signs on many shops around Centro touting the sale of a regional sweet, with the...

The invasion of Ukraine by a Stalinist-styled demagogue is on everyone’s mind, with the looming threat of further destruction and the...

Apothecary in the Museo Histórico de San Miguel I found this recipe, in Spanish, written by Maruja Gonzalez who still lives in San Miguel...

CATFISH, AND HOGS, AND ELEPHANTS…OH MY! Over the past few months I’ve come across several articles with strange terms that have puzzled...

Hey sweet Valentine, how ‘bout some roast goat and a good whipping? We are all used to giving and getting chocolates, or red roses, or at...

Recently I had a quintessential “San Miguel moment.” Sitting with friends for dinner at a restaurant, I spotted a lone woman at a table...

PART II As we pick up from the previous post about Christmas celebrations in Mexico, we have not yet gotten to Christmas Eve. Here are...

PART 1 Natalie Taylor San Miguel de Allende has myriad festivals, celebrating something most every week if not every day of the year. So...

What would you say to someone born the year that WWI came to an end, the year the Spanish flu swept across the world?

I don’t know Gabby Petito, nor her family background. All I know is that a beautiful young woman is dead, a lovely smile erased forever,...

On Valentines Day, aside from roses, the most popular gift is chocolate. This delicious, velvety substance is so commonplace we often...

Because of the pandemic lockdown, video calls have become more common than ever, but many are finding them exhausting. Zoom fatigue—the...

Historically, women’s primary role has always been mother and keeper of the hearth. But evidence shows they have also been fierce...

On January 1st we crumpled the last page of the 2020 calendar (those of us who still have paper calendars…); took a deep breath, and...

If anyone who had lived through the 1918 Spanish flu were alive today, they might recognize a lot of similarities with the the current...

Temperature monitoring, disinfectant gels, masks, sanitation crews wiping surfaces in public spaces, city portals with disinfectant...