What Can We Say About Living Alone?

Going to do the tourist thing today and drive over to Guanajuato, the state capitol. Look around. Perhaps take some photographs. In the meantime here my essay that generated 50 comments over at the Open Salon blog:



In the United States we recently crossed some demographic line relating to the number of people who live alone. I was holding forth on this to a lady friend recently and got the numbers perfectly wrong. Let me simply quote Nathan Heller:

Today, more than fifty per cent of U.S. residents are single, nearly a third of households have just one resident . . . .

Jacaranda

The jacaranda have been in bloom big time across the city.

Sunday in the Bush

Time for a Sunday stroll. A Sunday stroll in the bush.

The entrance to Ignacio's hacienda somewhere to the south deep in the heart of Mexico.

Toilets of Mexico: A Work in Progress

A Blown Day

Sometimes it is difficult to get these phony, heart-warming shots set up.

Another in the Patio Series

There is more than just my patio around here. There is, for example, the beautiful patio of Michel Pellerin and Ginette Bernard at their newly remodeled home out on the edge of town, on which I sat late this afternoon. By the way, they are not shacked up out there. They have been legally wed for decades.

A Stroll Around Town

  

Parque Benito Juárez

Sitting on My Ass

I like nothing more in the world than sitting on my ass doing nothing. And it's not my fault I have this attitude, because I happen to have an amazingly comfortable ass. It may not look like much, but if you could sit on this baby for two minutes, you'd realize that getting off this ass would be a crime against nature.
--Lori Chapman