Sweet dreams, sweet Karma …

12Mar11

I cried when I read my friend Connie’s email: I’m sorry to report that Karma has been very sick for the last couple of weeks. X-rays revealed that her heart is very enlarged and is pressing on her windpipe, but new x-rays taken today show some suspicious stuff going on in the inside. Things she […]

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Happy Day of the Dead

02Nov10

As a kid growing up in Mexico, I never gave much thought to the annual celebration of El Día de los Muertos. I loved the candy skulls, the street vendors’ skeleton marionettes, and the displays in the bakers’ windows: Tenemos pan de muerto (“we have bread for the dead”). A colleague’s note this morning brought […]

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Tags: Day of the Dead, death, Dia de los Muertos, euthanasia, hospice, Mexico