Author: Patty
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TEETH
By Jen Knox At fourteen, I stood on my toes and leaned over the sink. Edging closer to the bathroom mirror, I imagined how much easier life would be when I got braces to remove the sizable gaps between my front four teeth and the crookedness on the bottom row. It was one of…
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Night Fields
By Jared Hohl CHAPTER ONE The Life of Martin Porter My name is Martin Porter and my life consists of three cats, two dogs, fifteen fish, a rabbit, a starling, a bearded dragon, my wife, and the wild creatures of the Catskills forests to which we feed birdseed and deer salt and cougar mix and…
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Danza del Venado
By sami h. tripp GODS with names long forgotten—names my clumsy & starving tongue can only growl out of hunger—this hunter knows not the sacred rites of deer. i can wear their horns but cannot bleat their prayers. instead i move as a butcher, heavy-hoofed, twice-removed, hacking at scraps gnawing on gristle. GODS with…
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Kitchen inspired on Japanese
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Pre-Columbian Pyramids – Cañada de la Virgen
After a 13-year-long investigation, the archaeological zone, La Cañada de la Virgen, finally opened to the public in 2011. These ancient ceremonial ruins were once home to rulers and priests between 300 and 1050 A.D. They also served as a burial ground, (some remains are a thousand years older than the structures themselves) a precisely aligned…
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La Biblioteca Publica – San Miguel de Allende
La Biblioteca Publica (Insurgentes # 25) can be considered the “heart” of community life in San Miguel. Enter the courtyard of the old convent turned tanning factory turned Biblioteca on any given day and you will see a flurry of activity. Under one arched passage way children’s art projects are underway. At iron tables in…
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Exchanging Money In San Miguel de Allende
The easiest way to change your money into Pesos is with your ATM card. Using an ATM to get pesos gives you the best exchange rate and you don’t have to pay a high commission. If you opt to bring cash, there are a few places in the center that can do this service. (Make…
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A Place in the Heart By John Scherber
Writer and longtime San Miguel resident, John Scherber, was nice enough to allow us to republish the following excerpt that was originally published in San Miguel de Allende: A Place in the Heart. We hope you enjoy it as much as we did. A Place in the Heart People visiting San Miguel often wonder what…
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Defining Point of View: Pros and Cons of Six POVs in Fiction
Point of view is one of the most important decisions that a writer makes when writing a story. Point of view dictates how close the reader comes to the characters as well as how the narration is related to the reader. It is trendy these days to get as close as possible, so that the…
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Mexican Immigration to US Comes to a Halt
Mexicans are staying in Mexico. “No one wants to hear it, but the flow has already stopped,” Mr. Massey, co-director of the Mexican Migration Project at Princeton, recently said. “For the first time in sixty years, the net traffic has gone to zero and is probably a little bit negative.” Even with border violence, economic…