Lisa Mitchell-Bennett
My blogs
| Introduction | No stranger to expatriation, I was born in Mexico City to Gringo parents who were living in Chiapas, near the border of Guatemala. By my early twenties I had lived, worked, or studied in Mexico, Colombia, Indonesia, Switzerland, Spain, Costa Rica and Peru. Yet somehow I landed in Texas. The Rio Grande Valley,Texas. Brownsville to be exact. "On the Border, by the Sea" as the Brownsville Visitor and Convention Bureau likes to advertise, hoping somehow to erase the daily bad press about drug wars, kidnappings, poverty, obesity, dengue fever and hurricanes. To really mix things up, the aspects of culture here that are not influenced by Mexico, are totally Texas. Which is, according to the State motto, and my personal experience, "A Whole Other Country" in itself. This is my home and it is truly an imperfect but beautiful place. And writing about it makes me grin. |
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