Libélulas, cigarras, mariposas y otros insectos voladores del norte de la frontera llegaron al valle de Mexicali a principios de 1942 para reclutar abejas en ese lugar. Fueron enviados a esa tierra por los bichos-granjeros del norte, rancheros que estaban dispuestos a hacer ofertas de extraordinarios sueldos y grandes beneficios laborales a esas abejas si […]
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Chapter One Alejandra was planning to have a heart-to-heart talk with her husband Manuel about leaving the place where they had lived for more than twelve years. It was a desolate hamlet next to a large lagoon halfway down the Baja California peninsula. She had agreed to reside there for a while, on a trial
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No Midnight Snacks Midnight eats? I know we had none. We went to bed way before then. By Ten we were done, spinning dreams, All in one cot. But had yummy bites Most nights, mainly leftovers turned Into craved late snacks, our Mexican Cracker Jacks. Tortillas that crackled, Splashed with hints of this and that,
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Words I went to buy a pound of words the other day, I didn’t have a thing to say. They had a tray, it had no rhyme, I had no time to stay and play. * The lady there was something rare. It was in May; she couldn’t care if it were June. What a
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THE MEXICALI BEES By Pedro Chávez Dragonflies, cicadas, butterflies and other flying bugs from north of the border visited the Mexicali Valley in early 1942 to recruit bees there. They were sent to that land by the farmer-bugs from the north, ranchers that were prepared to make offers of great pay and extraordinary work benefits
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CHAPTER ONE Mid-December 1998 WINTER WAS ABOUT to arrive and so were the rest of the gray whales. Laguna San Ignacio was one of their yearly destinations. They traveled there from the waters off Alaska. A good number of whales were at the lagoon already, but many more would come soon and stay there for
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Sometimes I feel like Walt Stack, the legendary 80-year-old runner featured in a 1988 Nike’s “Just Do It” TV commercial. Not that I can run like Walt. Or that I ever could. But there’s something that he had that I also have. I call it “ganas.” He probably called it willpower. At age 77, I
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