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Laredo native Dan Clouse enjoys reading good writing in all genres but especially English essays and poetry and Spanish novels. He writes fiction himself in CV's and for after-dinner stories.
By the age of enjoying grandchildren and enduring the indignities of old men’s malfunctioning bodies, Fred and I had both become almost as much wiser as we were older
Peyote buttons, also called “Japanese Buttons,” cost $2.5o per thousand f.o.b. Los Ojuelos in 1909; they were shipped by Tex-Mex rail from Aguilares to Laredo for distribution to reservations north of the Red River
Native Americans have long considered the Bordas Escarpment east of Laredo holy ground for harvesting sacramental peyote
Alert, read no further: if you don’t know what I’m talking about, odds are this is about you
She traveled by rail to Chicago and so did a boxcar carefully packed with the 300 specimens of her exhibit
In the movie adaptation, the defiant peyote purveyor is played by Salma Hayek; she drives a ’61 Cadillac convertible
An inspirational motto for 2020: Kopet wawa. Mamook kwollan, literally, “Stop words. Do ear”
From the catastrophic mess our two separated and increasingly walled-off Laredos are struggling to survive in 2020, we look back to Labor Day Weekend 1932 with bitter nostalgia.
I recommend it to you with a hearty appetite.
Don’t expect an appreciative smile when you start singing “As I walked down the streets of Laredo”