Smuggling For Christmas (A Postcard From Mexico)

Also in the Stories From Carmen series

Butterfiles of Michoacan (A Postcard from Mexico) (03:17)
From: Jay Allison

Carmen Delzell tells about Michoacan and the Day of the Dead and the monarch butterflies. Like all Carmen's pieces, it's very personal, but reaches out with a delicate ...

Hotel Isabel (A Postcard from Mexico) (04:33)
From: Jay Allison

Carmen Delzell writes about her travels in Mexico and one of her favorite enchanted cheap hotels, the Hotel Isabel "on the edge of time." This piece was produced in 1999, ...

Garden of Eden (A Postcard from Mexico) (05:57)
From: Jay Allison

Carmen Delzell with another lovely meditation on the mysteries of travel and her semi-magical, melancholy life in Mexico. Like all these pieces it was recorded in the late ...

San Miguel (A Postcard From Mexico) (04:17)
From: Jay Allison

In this essay, Carmen Delzell tells how she initially left Texas and moved down to Mexico with no ability to speak Spanish and $600 cash from used stuff she sold. She writes ...

Lost Boyfriend (A Postcard from Mexico) (03:31)
From: Jay Allison

Carmen Delzell tells about how her boyfriend left her Saltillo, the town where she's living in Mexico. She looks for him, but can't find him, even with magic spells. His ...

Time in Exile (A Postcard From Mexico) (03:34)
From: Jay Allison

Carmen Delzell talks about what her life is like living in Mexico, how she's happier than ever, but in ways she never imagined. This essay was recorded in 1998, but it's an ...

Off The Bus (05:23)
From: Jay Allison

Carmen Delzell gets of a bus in Texas at 4am. She's coming back from Mexico with $5.00 in her pocket. She puts her bags in a shopping cart and records this monologue by the ...

Crazy John (06:03)
From: Jay Allison

Carmen Delzell was homeless for a couple of years in the early 1990's. This piece was produced in 1996, after she got on her feet and was living in Austin, Texas. It's a ...

EZ Malone (07:24)
From: Jay Allison

On her way home from her grandmother's funeral in 1996, Carmen happens to meet a remarkable African-American guitarist in a thrift shop in North Carolina. His name is EZ ...

Carmen's Grandmother (10:50)
From: Jay Allison

Produced in 1992 and originally aired on All Things Considered, this evergreen story chronicles Carmen Delzell's visit to her grandmother in the nursing home. It's a ...

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Broadcast History

Aired a long time ago on Savvy Traveler when that show existed (you can cut off the opening "Dear Rudy" if you want)

Intro and Outro

Be sure to mention that it was produced in 1999. You need to include a credit, like: "by Carmen Delzell, produced by Jay Allison."

Be sure to mention that it was produced in 1999. You need to include a credit, like: "by Carmen Delzell, produced by Jay Allison."