And God Said, Let there Be Pizza & Good Beverage
I’ve posted many photos of food I’ve prepared on Facebook in past years, and my pizzas have consistently gotten the most likes … along with the most requests for recipes. I’m always happy to...
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Pedro Parra: Chilean Cinsault
I really like this wine … which is actually the first and only wine I’ve ever had in which the cinsault grape is the primary or, in this case, supposedly the only grape (actually...
Keeping it simple: Foxglove Zin, Salami and Cheese
The wine under consideration here is a 2016 Zinfandel from Varner Wines in San Miguel, California. I paid $13 for it at Empire Wines, which is one of the better budget wine stores in...
Joining the Saints?
Between 1975 and 1983 the Guatemalan Army, “Civil Patrols” created by the army, and other elements of Guatemala’s military and intelligence entities murdered somewhere in excess of 100,000 people. Hundreds of Maya villages were...
Booze, Getting Over It, and Finding Norms
The following lines are from a New York Times article headlined “What Does it Mean to have a Serious Drinking Problem” published on 2 Feb 2020. A brief personal comment by me follows: Booze:...
Of Cursing, Tienditas con Barras, and Comparative Realities
Thoughts on an article – “La Esclavitud Ignorada en Ciudad de Guatemala, in the December 2017 issue of the excellent online Guatemalan magazine Nomada. I found this article in an FB post on the...
Day 1: Coffee and Chipi-Chipi: Jan 12, 2020
It’s a good morning to be in Chichi. Se parece muy tranquilo en el pueblo for a Sunday Market Day morning, perhaps because the town in still in decompression mode following the pyrotechnically orgiastic...
On Migration, Immigration, and the Right to Criticize Governors
A few days ago I made a post on my own FB page that was linked to an editorial in the Dallas News. The editorial was critical of Texas Governor Gregg Abbot, and I...
Discovering Doña Inés: TCOM and Exploration of a Maya Family in Crisis
… it was only after all the assessments were done and I was collating and analyzing my data back in New York that the consistent thread of psychosocial profiles without identifiable ACEs really became clear, and I realized that what we were seeing was an epidemiology of “toxic stress” among this rural Maya population.
Reviews of Reviews:
This is a thoughtful and insightful review of three books about our escalating culture war. The author of this review, Russell Johnson was a PhD Candidate studying “religious ethics and the philosophy of communication...
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