Mexico: Oxford’s “Place of the Year”

10 years ago this month (the first video is from the 14th of March, the second is the 4th), I took some random video of Hannah and Nathanael playing with some other kids. The first segment has both Hannah and Nathanael playing street hockey (no, not at all common here!). The second segment much more […]

The other day I went to ship a package, and before I left the clerk wanted to make sure I had a copy of this: This is a list of some of the things, mostly food items, that you can now ship out of Mexico. Actually, this has been the case for a few years, […]

It’s fascinating to compare the different histories of Canada, the United States, and Mexico. Each one had a very different beginning, based on very different responses to government. And that beginning has affected the history of each. After all, sometimes government is a very complicated thing. What if local government contradicts federal government? What if […]