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.

Saturday, July 17, 2021

McCartney Series is An Aural Adventure

https://youtu.be/KAkqy5QntGQ McCartney 3-2-1 is this Beatles fan’s dream come true. To hear Paul McCartney talk about the background to so...

Thursday, July 15, 2021

Summer Before Fourth Grade

It was H-O-T hot in Laredo all during the summer, but especially during the dog days of mid August, which my mom called la canicula. Time d...

Tuesday, July 6, 2021

Brian T. Gosling's Day of Firsts at San Pedro Springs Park Pool

Read Brian T. Gosling's story here

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 ...

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