From the Editor: And Then I Was There

Skeletal-faced Cihuateteo, deified women who died in childbirth, are among the monumental artifacts in the Mexica Hall of the National Museum of Anthropology in Mexico City, reflecting pre-Columbian beliefs surrounding death, fertility, and cosmic balance. Photo: Kele Johnson.I went to Mexico to visit my sister Tracie and brother-in-law, who have spent the past year on an adventure of their own in Mexico, settling for the last several months in San Miguel de Allende. It didn’t take long fo