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Día de los Muertos Forget about Christmas. (Don’t really. I still love Christmas.) Día de los Muertos is the most beautiful and welcoming holiday on the calendar. In Mexico, it’s a national holiday. School is out. You have the day off work. Take that Halloween! Like all great celebrations, there is pageantry, traditions, and a warm …

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Heart and Soul

Corona de Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe The Our Lady of Guadalupe Parish is the heart and soul of Puerto Vallarta’s El Centro.  It dominates the skyline and is one of the great symbols of our community. Nuestra. Our. The Mexicanos are an inclusive people.  This beautiful icon belongs to all of us. Nuestra. It’s like …

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Breaching

Definition: When a whale leaps partly or completely out of the water, head first, and lands on the back or belly with a resounding splash. This is the first piece of art I made when we decided to move to Puerto Vallarta to live, and I would return to visual art. It’s very rough and …

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Coming Home

Back to the Pacific I grew up near the Pacific. I spent my first 22 years in San Diego. I didn’t live on the water, but I was close enough. My toes knew the sand. My body was at one with the waves. If there was an undertow (“under toad” in John Irving’s The World …

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