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Author: Kirby Vickery

--- Kirby was born in a little burg just south of El Paso, Texas called Fabens. As he understand it, they we were passing through. His history reads like a road atlas. By the time he started school, he had lived in five places in two states. By the time he started high school, that list went to five states, four countries on three continents. Then he joined the Air Force after high school and one year of college and spent 23 years stationed in eleven or twelve places and traveled all over the place doing administrative, security, and electronic things. His final stay was being in charge of Air Force Recruiting in San Diego, Imperial, and Yuma counties. Upon retirement he went back to New England as a Quality Assurance Manager in electronics manufacturing before he was moved to Production Manager for the company’s Mexico operations. He moved to the Phoenix area and finally got his education and ended up teaching. He parted with the university and moved to Whidbey Island, Washington where he was introduced to Manzanillo, Mexico. It was there that he started to publish his monthly article for the Manzanillo Sun. He currently reside in Coupeville, WA, Edmonton, AB, and Manzanillo, Colima, Mexico, depending on whose having what medical problems and the time of year. His time is spent dieting, writing his second book, various articles and short stories, and sightseeing Canada, although that seems to be limited in the winter up there.

Maintenance

August 1, 2017December 9, 2017Kirby VickeryLeave a Comment on Maintenance

By Kirby Vickery from the August 2017 Edition I am not enthralled with the installation and maintenance efforts of some groups of people that do that sort of thing here in Manzanillo. I understand that Mexico has standards for the building, utilities installation and maintenance. The problem I’ve run across is that the workmanship of individual […]

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A Manzanillo Fish Story

July 1, 2017April 22, 2018Kirby VickeryLeave a Comment on A Manzanillo Fish Story

By Kirby Vickery from the July 2017 Edition Oh Hear Ye, Hear Ye! I have finally had the most successful fishing thing happen in Mexico since 1991 when I went down along the Baja California coast (just south of Tijuana) and  pulled in a 25 pound snapper that the US Border Patrol wanted to take […]

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On the Beach

June 1, 2017December 17, 2017Kirby VickeryLeave a Comment on On the Beach

By Kirby Vickery from the June 2017 Edition When I first started writing for the Manzanillo Sun, Freda and I decided that it should be about living in Manzanillo. However, when her illness set in, and we found ourselves far away, in Canada, for exceedingly-extended periods of time a year, it be- came necessary to […]

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Quetzalcoatl’s Return

May 1, 2017December 17, 2017Kirby VickeryLeave a Comment on Quetzalcoatl’s Return

By Kirby Vickery from the May 2017 Edition Quetzalcoatl (pron. Quet-zal-co-at) was one of the most important gods in ancient Mesoamerica. The god known as the Plumed Serpent is a mixture of bird and rattlesnake. Quetzalcoatl’s name is a combination of the Nahuatl words for the quetzal the emerald plumed bird and coatl or serpent. […]

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Aztec Music

April 1, 2017January 1, 2018Kirby VickeryLeave a Comment on Aztec Music

By Kirby Vickery from the April 2017 Edition Happy spring time everyone. It is the time for nature’s rebirth and the lands are full of life, music, color (or colour depending), dance and happiness. One of the more flamboyant styles of celebration comes from the Mexican people. They say it’s  the ‘Latin’ influence in the […]

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The Aztec and the Ant

March 1, 2017January 1, 2018Kirby VickeryLeave a Comment on The Aztec and the Ant

By Kirby Vickery from the March 2017 Edition The Aztec mythological ‘Beginning’ fables are one of the most complete sets of stories in the world. Mythologically, they tied everything back to being a gift of the gods. Even though there are some very good socialistic reasons for this, it is still fun to run back […]

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Volcano of Fire

February 1, 2017January 1, 2018Kirby VickeryLeave a Comment on Volcano of Fire

By Kirby Vickery from the February 2017 Edition I wanted to be able to tie in Aztec mythology into to the eruptions of Volcán de Colima which is also known as Volcán de Fuego in recognition of its almost constant eruptions of late. I didn’t find what I was looking for but have found some […]

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Aztec Celebrations

January 1, 2017January 1, 2018Kirby VickeryLeave a Comment on Aztec Celebrations

By Kirby Vickery from the January 2017 Edition Although the Aztecs didn’t have Christmas, New Years (as we know it), Kwanza or any other modern or ancient ‘old world’ holidays and festivals that fell into, not only December, but the entire Western year, they had plenty of their own and I thought that we could […]

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Aztec Stones and Rocks

December 1, 2016January 1, 2018Kirby Vickery

By Kirby Vickery from the December 2016 Edition Quetzalcoatl gave life to the people of the fifth sun by gathering the bones of a man and woman who had survived the long flood and sprinkling them with his own blood. The gods created the world with blood and required the sacrifice of human blood to […]

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Huitzilopochtli, The God of War

November 1, 2016January 2, 2018Kirby VickeryLeave a Comment on Huitzilopochtli, The God of War

By Kirby Vickery from the November 2016 Edition In modern society, we have two magic numbers out there that have a constant effect on our very being in dealing with physical science. One of the numbers is Pi which is 3.14, something, something, something. The other is 37 or 73 which I see cropping up […]

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