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Las Posadas

It’s taken a wee bit longer to get to this than I’d planned. Life does that. I talked earlier about Las Pastorelas; now I’d like to go one step back from that and present a few things from Las Posadas. The reenactment of Las Posadas (Posada is Spanish for “inn” …

Las Pastores de Belen

A little over a year ago, early in December of 2014, I read on a website that Mission Espiritu Santo in Goliad was hosting a Pastorela, a Shepherds’ Play, for Christmas, and knew that was my next trip. I’d learned about Pastorelas some time in the Long Ago, but never …

This man hates his job. You can just tell these thigns.

Dia de los Reyes

Fourth of January last I saw a Facebook post from This Guy I Know, saying that Pancho Claus was going to spend the Sixth of January with some of his homies and a few Kingly types hitting several of the Mambo’s restaurants in the area to celebrate the day with …