View from the Borderlands

Musings by Linda Cuellar, Ed.D., Community college educator, journalist, video writer and producer who writes and wonders on topics about her life and family, the media, education, border culture, language, travels and U.S. - Mexico issues and topics.

Friday, July 13, 2012

Guerrero Then and Now (part one)

One Three girls, two of them twins the age of eleven, the other, only ten, are cousins. They sleep on a wide canvas cot stretched on a fram...

Guerrero Then and Now (part two)

Two Tia Marta is on the warpath. You can see that by the way her eyes turn into little slits when she sees us as she walks on the sidewalk ...

Guerrero Then and Now (part three)

Three Artie and Alice live with their husbands and children in Arizona. Their cousins Linda and the two little sister cousins, Maricela and...

Tuesday, July 10, 2012

Thanks to a Teacher

The email arrived this morning with news I had prayed would not come. My teacher and friend is dying. Her son is beside her, and I know s...

Monday, June 11, 2012

Spirit is a Feeling, Not an Object

I attended mass yesterday with two of my dear buddies at a beautiful church, St. Anthony of Padua, named after San Antonio's patron sa...

Thursday, June 7, 2012

My Sis

We are a curious people, we Cuellars. Take me and my sister. Life holds so many things for us to see and learn about, the only reason we e...

Monday, June 4, 2012

A Hill Country Welcome Home

Three weeks away, and what happens? Nature takes its course, that's what. The grasshoppers, chicharras (cicadas), crickets, tree fr...

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