Oliver Sacks- Friend and Mentor
On his 80th birthday, I wrote the following to Oliver Sacks, famed neurologist, student of human conditions, author of seminal book such as Awakenings, An Anthropologist on Mars, Migraine, Uncle Tungsten, Oaxaca Journal, Musicophilia, and other fascinating books that...
Guanajuato – The City
I have a new love!! Or is it an old one revisited? I went to Guanajuato to see another dream fulfilled. I always wanted to be in a movie and I have a small singing role in Moronga, a black comedy that had its premiere at the Guanajuato Film Festival on July 26,...
The Food of Yucatan in Mexico City
Amuse bouche at Casona La Yucateca Photo by Alex Uballez It was a gastronomically exciting time to be in Mexico City. On the one hand are traditional restaurants and street foods, and on the other, places that serve light, well-conceived and respectful versions of...
Trip to Schlesinger Library: A Voyage to my Past
At the Schlesinger Library. Many thanks Susan Hutcheon, Kathryn Jacob, Marylene Altieri, and to Neftali Duran. Yesterday, I did one or two, or maybe even four things I’ve been dying to do but, for reasons unknown to me, I had not done. In 2013, Harvard’s...
Sad Songs from a Happy Heart
Most of you don’t know that guitarist Humberto Flores (of the Villalobos Brothers) and I are recording an album called Sad Songs from a Happy Heart or that we launched an Indiegogo campaign to raise the money to complete the project. PLEASE ,MAKE SURE YOU READ...
The many lives of Zarela Martínez
Culinary legend Zarela Martínez introduced finely tuned, highly researched regional Mexican cuisine to a national stage, and has continued to blaze trails for more than three decades.