Parental Driver Education

There are some real differences between how I grew up in the 80s and how my kids are experiencing life in 2024. For example, I met people face-to-face and then had conversations with them for hours on the phone, which I could only access in my own home. Mind...

The Dream

Entering this dream dimension brings the joys and sorrows of the game of separation. Other bodies meet other bodies. These bodies think they are simply palpable matter that gives meaning to this existence. This meaning is profoundly altered by this duality. If you accept it, your role will be to...

Nutrigenetics and Nutrigenomics 

Let us remember that nutrition is the science responsible for the study of food, micro and macronutrients, as well as the process in which they are assimilated, absorbed and eliminated from the body, helping its vital functions and pathological conditions due to their excess or deficiency.  The most significant problem...

Do You Believe in Magic?

Recap: Good Morning, From Here, September 21 to 27 Monday Goodbye, Summer, and hello to Autumn, which will be with us until just before Christmas Day, which means there are only 90ish more shopping days. Today, I am facing an almost insurmountable problemita. How can I write about M-A-G-I-C? We know...

Corbetena Shows a Pulse!

Once we enter September, the popular and primary species of Marlin, Yellowfin Tuna, Sailfish, and Dorado all start picking up in numbers. But the fishing in Puerto Vallarta is in a bit of a void. Tourism is down, so we have very few boats heading out. But we’re coming into...

PROFECO: Mexico’s Consumer Protection Agency

Do Ampi offices use Profeco? Yes! We have been required to do so by law since 2022. For the past 10 years, we have been in a market providing resale properties and new construction projects. Our offices and agents in the three Ampi chapters in the Bay of Banderas use the...

Writing What You Know (Part Two of Two)

I remember that waaaaaay back in my Junior High School years, we had to read the play, watch the film, and discuss "Life With Father" – and (it seemed to me) the primary focus of making us study that was to fully understand the need to "write what you...

Migraine Triggers – Dehydration

Why is it easier for us to take better care of our car's needs than our own health? We devotedly regularly take our vehicle to a specialist (a garage mechanic) for maintenance, and, in the case of mechanical problems, we ask questions, cluck with concern over every detail of...

We All Have Our Talents

My dear husband Gilberto decided recently to spend a couple of weeks on his home turf, Mexico City. He had some errands to take care of, and he wanted to take the opportunity to visit his family.  I was a little jealous because Mexico City has the loveliest weather right...

The Meaningfulness of Meditation

Many of you are now opening yourselves to receiving messages that don't come from your previous thoughts, that don't come from the chatter that people deal with all day, but come from someplace else, someplace deep within you. And, yet, it has no physical bearing or reference point. There was a...

Show Notes From North Carolina

It's the morning after the first show. It was enormously successful, and I'd like to share some of my personal glamorous bits because I do lead and always have led a personally glamorous celebrity existence. I discovered the maid or the assistant or my butler or my driver had not...

Getting to Know You

Recap: Good Morning, From Here, September 14 - 20 Monday What a delightful reunion I had with the Kesslers last week. They have finally made the big, permanent jump from Simi Valley, California, to Vallarta. They will take their time perusing the myriad colonias to see where they will finally...

Cross Your Fingers Fishing

Usually, writing these fishing articles isn’t anything too complicated. As the week goes by, I talk with several Captains and friends with private boats as well as my own recent experiences. Then you just put down what they tell you and try to make it as interesting as possible. Many...

Writing What You Know (Part One of Two)

My professional life has primarily been spent in the study of America’s great songwriters – beginning with my early infatuation with the songs of Cole Porter and then unavoidably spreading over to Rodgers & Hart, Gershwin, Irving Berlin, Frank Loesser, Jule Styne, Johnny Mercer, Sammy Cahn, et al. It’s...

Preconstruction Homes in Jalisco and Nayarit

The preconstruction of condos in this market has been the largest and most active building industry for over 10 years. The unexpected popularity of condo preconstruction has brought thousands of new units on the market in Jalisco and Nayarit.  This popularity has been possible because seller financing has been given...

Migraine Triggers – Alcohol

Red wine and beer are more of a trigger than white wine, and dry wine is less of a trigger than sweet. I wasn't a big drinker to begin with, but so desperate to make every attempt to get rid of the migraines that I tried every strategy and recommendation I came across in my...

Long May She Live

There's something about Vallarta on September 15 that almost allows you to forget the 90% humidity, right? I mean, "almost" is a word that holds so much value in that last sentence. But still. Mexico celebrates her declaration of independence in such a tidal wave of color, noise and...

Live a Life in Service to Source 

“I am St. Germain, keeper of the violet flame. You who have the physical lifetime to live need to realize that much more of you is nonphysical and coexists in this moment with this lifetime. You are meant to anchor in more of that which you truly are, and...

40,000 Tortillas a Day

Alex has worked in his family’s tortillaria in El Tuito since he was ten. He happily greets me whenever I bring folks by to see the whole process of making tortillas. The first stop is the back room, where 5-kilogram bags of dried kernels are stacked floor to ceiling as...

Fibromyalgia, When the Body Talks About the Unspeakable Pain

Last week, we talked about autoimmune diseases and many of their causes, including emotional origins.  On this occasion, we will talk about another type of disease, often wrongly called psychosomatic, which, although they have an emotional and psychological component, also present very varied signs and symptoms and are difficult to...