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Major Tom to Ground Control

Mexico is a world away. In spite of geography and technology and our best intentions, it is quite impossible to wrap your mind around this Other place. I get it. When I am in the States I even have a hard time envisioning our house, our dogs, the life we live every day, so I [...]

28May2010 | Jillian | 0 comments | Continued
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The Only Time I Will Ever Write About My Underarms

I’m not one of those bloggers who emulates the notoriously grodi Say Anything column from sadly now defunct YM Magazine. I have no plans to discuss or disclose anything we might have learned about in 5th grade health or 6th grade gym class. Boys do not have to leave the room giggling. There will be [...]

16May2010 | Jillian | 0 comments | Continued
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(Not so) Far from the Madding Crowd

Sweltering and cramped in our attic apartment, we looked into the magic mirror to a place where concrete framed the complementing elements of sky and water. We decided then (2005) and there (East Rock, New Haven, Connecticut, The World, The Universe) that we would flee it all and land on the beach, own our first [...]

5May2010 | Jillian | 4 comments | Continued
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A Case of the Fridays

Unlike Garfield, Peter Gibbons, and this one girl from high school I’m Facebook friends with, I don’t really hate Mondays. In our little world, which has its particular pleasures and problems, the first morning of a fresh week is A-OK with me. I don’t have to wake up early. There is no mania-inducing commute by [...]

19Apr2010 | Jillian | 0 comments | Continued
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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
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Good Times

Like I told you, I didn’t experience the layered love embrace of Mother Mexico upon arrival in this country, or really ever. So be it. Some people discover a love of this place that burns like a thousand suns. For others it just burns. I know that sometimes my tart reactions are triggered by the [...]

9Mar2010 | Jillian | 0 comments | Continued
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Ramblings

When Mexico is adorable it is wonderfully so. Children chasing chickens in the yard, festivals of colors and lights and saints, spontaneous parades, palm trees, colonial architecture and cheap delicious street food are all undeniably very good things. But when Mexico is awful*, it is terribly so. We’ve discussed how there is not really anything [...]

1Mar2010 | Jillian | 5 comments | Continued
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A Nation of Two

As much as we have lived in Mexico these last four years, mostly we have lived alone in a world of our own construct. Throughout our relationship we’ve always been close. I distinctly remember the year we met, during our ritual of watching The Practice and eating takeout in Malcolm’s tiny first floor dorm room [...]

12Feb2010 | Jillian | 0 comments | Continued
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… And We’re Back (But Not For Long)

 
As it turns out, as we have proven, you can abandon your pressboard life, board a plane to a place you’ve never been and carve out an existence – and a pretty sweet one at that – in an uncanny valley far, but not too far, from home. We didn’t drop off the edge of [...]

2Feb2010 | Jillian | 6 comments | Continued