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.

Thursday, January 7, 2021

Songs, The System and So Many Questions

I love songs so much that all my life I have wondered how songwriters construct them. Do lyrics come to a songwriter first, and then afte...

Saturday, January 2, 2021

Sloop John B's Gift That Keeps Giving

Today I learned that my nearly-all-time favorite Beach Boys song, Sloop John B has its origins far from where I've spent the past 55 ye...

Monday, December 7, 2020

The Circle of Life or Not A Good Lunch for ZZ

Out of the corner of my eye I caught ZZ the cat zigzagging up and down in the screened-in porch. How cute I thought. But it wasn’t. W ith ...

Tuesday, October 6, 2020

A Fawn In the Mid-Day Sun

The sunlight in October is less intense and blinding than earlier in August. The sun peeks sideways at us, not directly overhead or quite ...

Monday, September 28, 2020

The Hero's Journey in Life is Beautiful

This movie is a two-for-one. The first half of Life is Beautiful (1997 winner of three Academy Awards) is a comedy-romance beginning with a ...

Saturday, September 5, 2020

I caught a glimpse of my shadow

I wasn’t taught to be thankful to me or for me. I was to others, yes. I teach myself this now that I have time. To stand straight up, my ...

Thursday, September 3, 2020

Gracias a la Vida

Gracias a la Vida. Vida on the STARZ network breaks new ground in television storytelling with a chilling chingazo . For those not familiar...

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