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Adios, Sophia. Que le vaya bien!
While we were unable to find a pet escort flying to Seattle, Laura from Coco’s Cat Rescue came up with the great idea to fly Sophia with a willing pet escort who was flying from Cancun to Vancouver,...
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Goodbye, Puppies
The last of Margie’s puppies, El Niño, has gone to live with Lucy and her family, a woman who works in my apartment building. I felt good about this adoption, since Lucy often brings her young son to...
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Salvador, Late or Early
On my first trip to Playa del Carmen in early 2002, sitting in a tourist bar on the then-unpaved 5th avenue, I remember seeing a darling little boy of about 3 years old selling gum to earn a few pesos....
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Would you like to dance with me?
I don’t get out much, but last night I went to Bad Boys on the beach between Calles 2 and 4 to see the amazing Brent Parkin and his band playing the kind of rocking Blues that makes it impossible not...
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Letting it Go–The 2011 Edition
Recently, one of my friends posted on Facebook what a good year 2011 had been for him–reading this, I was briefly taken aback because “2011″ and “good year” were such incongruent terms in my life. It...
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Open Letter to the Woman Whose Unleashed Dog Got in a Fight with My Leashed Dog
Dear Woman in My Neighborhood Whose Unleashed Dog Got in a Fight with My Leashed Dog, Look, that sucked. It was late at night and I was taking my dog out for a walk after having left her alone in my...
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Unicorn Seeks Unicorn
Prior to the last year or so, I’ve never really dated. I was a serial monogamist–a good girlfriend, meeting my long term boyfriends at work or through friends. My last relationship, I was friends...
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Saving Scottie From Death Row
Long time readers of HiP will know that I’ve been involved with a number of Playa del Carmen-area charitable projects since I moved here almost 8 years ago. Primary among these have to do with the...
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Sandwichon–I Just Can’t Eat Thee
One of the things that’s kind of a bummer about having lived here in Mexico so long is that I no longer notice things that once would have stood out to me as being very different from the way things...
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Sleep sweet, Goodnight, Goodnight
As you all know, two weeks ago I became the foster “mother” to a puppy that my friend Laura and I rescued from Playa del Carmen’s dismal perrera. This was the photo that sent us in search of her: I...
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