Tucked behind all the racks of tourist postcards, cities hold a few secrets and surprises unknown or ignored by most visitors. Of the hundreds of thousands who pile into Chicago's Wrigley Field yearly very few will notice Alta Vista Terrace, a one-block-long jewel of a neighborhood with forty quirky houses built in the early 1900s …
Tag: Xochimilco
The happiness of the moment
When I was growing up in Cuba and later in the United States, attention deficit disorder was no front-page news. I don't think many people had even heard of it and those who had probably weren't paying much attention to the phenomenon anyway.Still, I suspect that I had a touch, or maybe a big dollop, …
El Rancho Santa Clara 