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Visiting Mazatlán with Kids
Kids love Mazatlán! The list below should help whether you are traveling here on holiday or whether you live here and are wondering about something new and different to do with your kids during school...
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Counterfeiting and Scalping, Teenage-Style 2012 (llegar de colado)
My parents met one night when they both crashed a wedding reception. Neither one of them had been invited to the party. Neither one of them even knew the people getting married! They lived in small...
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Rite of Passage
Rites of passage. What images does that phrase bring to mind? Masai warrior rituals? Debutante balls? Walkabouts? Bar mitzvahs? Uros Indian boys knitting hats so tightly that water won’t leak...
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Lenten Program at School
Danny’s now gone to two different Catholic schools here in Mazatlán, and they both have required parents to attend meetings or retreats in order for the kids to get a better grade in religion class....
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New Marco Polo Park for "Differently Abled" Kids in Mazatlán
Can you imagine you are a child in a wheelchair, watching as your friends swing in the park? How do you feel? Watching them slide down the slide, or go up and down on the teeter totter, or round and...
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Children’s Day at Deportivas Juarez
The other really terrific Children’s Day event in which we participated last weekend was a huge festival for local kids from the more marginalized neighborhoods of town. It was held at the Canchas...
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Primera CicloNoche Mazatlán/First Mazatlán Bicycle Night
180 bicyclists showed up this evening at 8:00 pm for the very first CicloNoche Mazatlán! We pedaled only about seven kilometers, but oh was it gorgeous! The event was organized by SEMARNAT—Secretaria...
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“Minority Boy” Nears High School Graduation
My oh my oh my! Time most definitely does fly. This morning, as I was sitting in the Rigodanza Auditorium at ICO, looking out on the nearly 300-strong “Generación 59″ graduating class, I just kept...
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The Transience of Friendships in Mazatlán
I’ve lived a lot of places: Wisconsin, the San Francisco Bay area, Tokyo, Kyoto, Hamamatsu, Salamanca, Mexico City, Kansas City… What has been a defining factor of friendships in Mazatlán for me has...
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Social Services’ (DIF) Annual Report
This morning the Presidenta del Systema DIF de Mazatlán, Sylvia Treviño de Felton, gave her first annual report to a full house in our gorgeous Angela Peralta Theater. I attended with a group of...
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