Pirates!
The Conversational Habits of East Coast City Folk
Once, between harvests, I went on a trip to New York City. There I had the pleasure of making a friend at the Grand Central Station who took me into his confidence to inform me that one in every five persons I see there in the Big Apple was in fact an [...]
20Apr2010 | Jillian | 1 comment | Continued
Expattitude
Imagine the coolest person you’ve ever seen. Dial that back about 26%. Drop this beautiful badass into a daytime street scene in a busy Mexican port. That’s me. Imagine me walking. Up the sidewalk on April 1st. The sky is blue, the sidewalk packed with vendors and vacationers. I found a parking space. This alone [...]
1Apr2010 | Jillian | 4 comments | Continued
Collector’s Items
Here is a hope, a vision of the future: nearing the end of my time on this earth, rich with experience, love and wisdom, I would like to have a cozy house filled with family, friends, and beautiful things, objects I’ve collected from many travels all over the world. They will be lovely and they [...]
16Mar2010 | Jillian | 0 comments | Continued
Call Off “The Hounds of Zaroff” We Just Want To Play!
The blogosphere is abuzz with voices across Mexico defending their adopted country. I couldn’t agree more with the chorus of sanity. Don’t let the fear mongers get you down. And though I don’t know what will happen tomorrow I can say for today that the United States of Mexico has not failed, narco-banditos are not [...]
4Mar2009 | Jillian | 4 comments | Continued
What Happened in Cancun
Just back from our second adventure in Mexico’s capital of ugly shorts and shake marijuana and we are exhausted. Saturday morning we packed up a rental car with my father in law and some egg salad sandwiches and set off across Highway 180. A blown back tire and 319 pesos in tolls later we arrived [...]
6Oct2008 | Jillian | 5 comments | Continued
Social Darwinism
In 1858 British naturalist Sir Alfred Russel Wallace, a contemporary of Chuck D, published a paper entitled On the Tendency of Varieties to Depart Indefinitely From the Original Type. But since Wallace was remote and isolated far flung in Indonesia, he is all but forgotten to history. If he had been able [...]
17Jun2008 | Jillian | 1 comment | ContinuedHow’s the Weather in Chelem, Mexico?
Mostly Cloudy
Currently: 77˚F
Feels Like: 80˚ F
Hi: 77˚, Lo: 69˚
Wind: 7, Gust: N/A MPH
Wind Direction: NE (50)
me and my sister loves to cook foods at home and we always love homecooked meals-,~ 
HAHAHHAAHA..YOU MADE ME LAUGHT! I WANT ONE OF THOSE....CHINESE FOR DINNER TONIGHT. 
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Sounds lovely! Especially in contrast to Malcolm's status update about the shirtless Discman meth addict twitchy types. It's good to ...
Mad cute, Missy. Mad cute. 
And four years ago today, June 27, Malcolm found a a sweet baby kitten, hurt in the street and ...
I hope whatever the future holds for you will be exciting, challenging, and especially FUN. You were one of our ...
Malcolm y Jillian:
Les ecribimos estas líneas para expresarles que ha sido un privilegio tenerles como amigos ...