Living in Mexico

Halloween bleeds into Day of the Dead in Mexico, making for days of ghoulish fun. Preparations start weeks before, then at the end of October, the kids dress up like something scary, with full-on face painting, and go trick-or-treating from store to store. Only in a few Americanized neighborhoods do you go to houses. Instead …

For the last few weeks we’ve been packing up boxes to put most of what we own in storage. The rest is coming with us to Mexico in the form of two checked suitcases and a carry-on bag each. Wednesday the boxes went into storage. Yesterday we cleaned up our rental house so we’ll get …