I took the name for my blog from the American Indian Cowboy Humorist and Trick Roper Will Rogers. Of the United States of his day, he said: "What the country needs is dirtier fingernails and cleaner minds." After a few years of urban and suburban life as a journalism grad student, and then as a working journalist, I came to the think that I needed some of the same...(more).

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• Websites
  • Tim Stelloh.com
    Writer, adventurer, husband o' mine.
  • Jonah Owen Lamb's Weblog
    The Road South: a drive through Mexico
  • National Geographic Glimpse
    "First person, cultural-experience pieces written by study abroad students, volunteers, international students and others living abroad."
  • Snarky Tofu
    Cultural Observations From a Swiftly Tilting Lonely Planet Author
  • Thorn Tree Forums - Mexico
    Forum for travelers by travelers.
  • Our Bible
    The People's Guide to Mexico
  • Mexico Cooks!
    Yum, yum, yum.
• Books

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  Blood of Brothers: Life and War in Nicaragua (David Rockefeller Center Series on Latin American Studies)

  by Stephen Kinzer
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  The Massacre at El Mozote

  by Mark Danner

  
  
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  Salvador

  by Joan Didion
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  Mexico: Stencil

  Editorial RM
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  Across the Wire: Life and Hard Times on the Mexican Border

  by Luis Alberto Urrea
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  Bitter Fruit: The Story of the American Coup in Guatemala, Revised and Expanded (David Rockefeller Center Series on Latin American Studies)

  by Stephen Schlesinger, Stephen Kinzer, John H. Coatsworth
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  Genesis (Memory of Fire Trilogy, Part 1)

  by Eduardo Galeano
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  Faces and Masks (Memory of Fire Trilogy, Part 2)

  by Eduardo Galeano
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  Century of the Wind (Memory of Fire Trilogy, Part 3)

  by Eduardo Galeano
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  Trail Of Feathers: Searching for Philip True

  by Robert Rivard
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  The People's Guide to Mexico (Peoples Guide to Mexico)

  by Carl Franz, Lorena Havens