Mexican Perspectives

By Tom Bridges July 2001 Language is a funny thing. We all use it although few of us ever stop to consider what it means.  Even fewer of us ever consider why it means what it does. There is a phrase i...

By Tom Bridges June 2005 Another one of those cultural differences between the north of the border crowd and folk who live on this side of the Rio Bravo is family. I often hear the lament about how so...

By Tom Bridges Dec 2005 We folks from up north are a contentious lot. Compared to our Mexican counterparts we are argumentative, loud, impolite, and overly proud when it comes to our opinions.  Mexica...

By Cat Gonzalez December 2004 In November and December my grandparents float like clouds on the surface of my mind. I think of Great Grandmother Docking and Grandfather Marshall trekking in a covered ...

By Phyllis Kepler Jan 2002 In Mexico we like to label time problems simply as the “mañana theory”. But it is a much deeper, more complicated challenge that faces gringos in this society, geared to a s...

By Tom Bridges January 2003 “We stopped on our way down in some town where they had a MacDonald’s. I couldn’t believe the prices. We spent more than $100 (pesos) for a couple of hamburgers, fries, and...

By Tom Bridges March 2004 Kids in Mexico seem never to leave home. They do but they never leave very far. They may go to the US or even further afield but they still are close to home. When I first ca...