January

Well this is the last day of the month. What happened to January? Hopefully its been a good month for everyone. We've been doing the usual, all the obligations that come with the start of the year but did go off to a small colonial town in southeast Michoacan, Tacambaro, to celebrate Cristina's birthday over a weekend. Tacambaro is on a balcony between the Michoacán highlands and the low lying hotcountry and so has some really panoramic views as well as a volcanic crater filled with emerald green waters just outside the town. So we spent the weekend hiking and enjoying the famous local cusine generously served at stands in the central market.
Hope all are well. It going to be an interesting year what with political campaigns, elections and hopefully critical changes in the way this new century began. Remember the political analyst Joseph Lampalabara who was a speaker in Rome. I remember he suggested we do a "postmortum" of the Italian elections, which we never did but the clever metaphor stayed in my head.