Ahoy all! Your faithful correspondent is still whooping it up on his United States family tour/vacation. So this week, I want to encourage you to try out some different blogs.

First: Ask a Mexican. This newspaper column is syndicated by the alternative Orange County Weekly. It’s a Q and A format, but that’s about where the similarities with Anne Landers end. Writer Gustavo Arellano takes on everything - from politics to religion to movies to ice cream.

Second on the must read list is Mexico with Heart. My pal Rosana Hart is the scribbler-in-chief on this blog, a romp through Mexican life from the northern shores of Lake Chapala. Rosana is an astute observer of life, and living in an area popular with Gringo retirees, she has an excellent post from which to see the comparisons between Mexican and American cultures.

Happy reading.