Monthly Archives: October 2009

A Letter to Fourth Place

27th
Oct. × ’09
By Sarah
I am always fourth place in Oaxacan races. There are three badass runner women who always beat me by a solid minute or two. I am, mind you, a highly competitive person. I’m used to winning in the U.S, and then to come down here where I never see another female running [...]
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Defining Onself in Eight Hundred Words

22nd
Oct. × ’09
By Sarah
There are some days you just can’t make lists for. Today was one of them. Too much stuff in a whirlwind in my brain and me catching drifts here and there but not really cruising on any of them. Still not quite sure what I did today or what I should have [...]
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La Matanza: Goat Slaughter in Huajuapan, La Mixteca, Oaxaca, Mexico

19th
Oct. × ’09
By Sarah
Photos by Jorge Luis Santiago Text by Sarah Menkedick Listen to the podcast: Last Friday we went to the annual goat slaughter in Huajuapan.  550 goats slaughtered on a Spanish hacienda in the Mixteca.  I have been writing the experience out of my system for the past three [...]
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Sometimes I realize I live in Mexico

15th
Oct. × ’09
By Sarah
Today smelled like Mexico.   Smell is the most primal of the senses in triggering nostalgia.  A smell brings on a literal nostalgia assault; you can’t look away from it, spit it out, plug your ears.  You’re just going to have to remember.  Yesterday smelled like Madison, like summer in Madison.  It smelled almost exactly like [...]
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