Buenas dias, buenas tardes, o buenas noches.
Welcome to the Mexico site at BellaOnline. My name is Les Shulman and as editor for this site I hope that you will find the forthcoming articles to be informative, entertaining, relevant, and, just as importantly, thought-provoking.
I was born and raised in and around Boston, Massachusetts. In December 2006, having concluded that basta es basta/enough is enough, my wife, Ma Eugenia (Maria) and myself relocated from San Jose, California to a small town in the Western Central Highlands of Mexico in the state of Michoacan. For Maria, a long-term social worker for a housing authority, it was indeed a homecoming as she was returning not only to the place of her birth that she had left at the age of twelve to move to the USA with her parents and six siblings but was returning to her familial home. For me, it was and continues to be a welcomed opportunity to attempt to satisfy on, hopefully, a permanent basis my lifelong wanderlust as Mexico provides virtually unlimited potential to explore its many facets-positive,negative, and everything in between.
Not only has living in Churintzio with my bilingual and culturally aware/sensitive wife provided me with the chance to explore and learn more about typical Mexican customs, traditions, superstitions, religion, politics, mores, festivals, foods, markets, crafts, transportation systems, ecology/nature, architecture, daily living, and culture, it has been an excellent base to travel to other parts of Mexico from. I have traveled extensively throughout Mexico with a particular emphasis on colonial regions/cities, beach towns of the non-resort variety, and sites to observe nature.
Furthermore, my careers as an executive chef in various US cities and in Thailand and Australia and more recently as a MSW level economic social worker, with a focus on human capital development and asset accumulation, has provided me with the skills (not just culinary-wise) to have an understanding of and appreciation for cross-cultural experiences. Living in Mexico has also afforded me with a world-class platform to discover or expand upon my interests of birding, nature photography, rockhounding, obsidian artifact collecting, being trained by a menagerie of mascotas/pets, and cooking.
This was my first foray into online writing.
Bienvenidos a Mexico!
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