Category: Creative Writing About San Miguel

  • A Place in the Heart By John Scherber

    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…

  • Driving in Mexico: No Country For New Cars

    Driving in Mexico: No Country For New Cars

    The thought of driving in México strikes a deadly fear into the hearts of many Americans and Canadians alike. Of course, they purchased Méxican car insurance when they crossed the border. Yet somehow this only made them feel legal, not safe. Now here’s the reality as they ease their $46,000 BMW onto the pavement and…

  • Los Pueblos Mancomunados by Mittie Roger

    Los Pueblos Mancomunados by Mittie Roger

    I arrived in Benito Juarez by foot. The second class bus dropped me at a fork in a curvy road with nothing in sight. Yet I was not only relieved, I was overjoyed. Nausea from the tightly-enclosed space, sharp turns, and lack of moving oxygen had nauseated me. When the bus driver yelled “Benito Juarez,”…

  • 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…

  • Warm Winter at the San Miguel Writers’ Conference By Dhana Musil

    I had the most wonderful fortune of being awarded a scholarship to attend the San Miguel de Allende Writers’ Conference last month.  It was the first time in 16 years I’d traveled abroad without children in tow. The anticipation was extreme– a combination of counting down the sleeps and– maybe I shouldn’t go? From the…

  • Driving in Mexico: No Country For New Cars

    The thought of driving in México strikes a deadly fear into the hearts of many Americans and Canadians alike. Of course, they purchased Méxican car insurance when they crossed the border. Yet somehow this only made them feel legal, not safe. Now here’s the reality as they ease their $46,000 BMW onto the pavement and…

  • Los Pueblos Mancomunados by Mittie Roger

    I arrived in Benito Juarez by foot. The second class bus dropped me at a fork in a curvy road with nothing in sight. Yet I was not only relieved, I was overjoyed. Nausea from the tightly-enclosed space, sharp turns, and lack of moving oxygen had nauseated me. When the bus driver yelled “Benito Juarez,”…

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