A Boy’s Touch
His gentle hand caresses the soft fur as if he is savoring the most delicious thing he has ever tasted.Continue Reading
Author: Alison Wattie
In October 2012, I drove 6,800 kms with my artist husband, Ric Kokotovich (www.rickokotovich.com), and my dog Iggy, to spend 6 months in our adopted city of Merida. Leaving the fast paced world of Calgary behind, I packed my books, art and entrepreneurial spirit, and set off to explore what lay beyond the borders that had become my life. In October 2013 we hit the road south again, hoping to find out what ‘living the dream’ really means. This is my adventure.
Experience Art with Leïla Voight
Leïla Voight is an enigma. She’s a very private person with a very public persona. Her latest project, the multidisciplinaryContinue Reading
Send in the Clowns
Haydee Bañales is a clown. Not of the ‘red nose, giant shoes, tiny car variety’. But of the ‘telling aContinue Reading
These Babies
The clock struck. 7 am. A harsh reality on a Saturday morning after a luscious Friday evening in Merida. IContinue Reading
Learning to Fly
When I was a child, I dreamt of flying all the time. In the morning I would open my eyesContinue Reading
Experience Happy
“You’re much more likely to feel connected to someone you took a vacation with in Bogotá, than someone who alsoContinue Reading
Love in the Time of Dengue
I have fallen in love with another man and it’s no secret. Not even to my husband. For the impactContinue Reading
World Peace and Ice Cream
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How I Came to Know the Best Female Bullfighter in the World
Rhonda Buckley is a storyteller from Newfoundland—she also happens to be an award-winning filmmaker. I first met Rhonda in Merida’s leafy HidalgoContinue Reading
A Poetic Wanderer
Studies in England with a Master weaver, Theological studies at Trinity College, Bristol, a sojourn at the Banff Center, anContinue Reading
Advice on Writing
The dog days* of summer are here in Merida and I am in the middle of a dry spell – literally andContinue Reading
Follow the Light
I wake up to the sounds of life in a barrio in a small city in Mexico; dogs barking, goatsContinue Reading
Vive la Festival a-part!
The French Alpilles – an incredible natural treasure of Provence – welcomed the 2015 a-part festival with the grand opening of Face2Face in theContinue Reading
The Road to Provence
The perfume of earth and olives fifty shades of green deep cypress frames guilded eucalyptus in heat as dry asContinue Reading
face2face in the Alpilles
Summer is here and my brain cells and I are on vacation. I’m heading to Provence to experience the face2faceContinue Reading
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