21/11/2025
Good Morning, From Here, November 21, Friday
I have been writing my column ''From Here'' for a dozen years or so with slight variations in the title and for different publications, but it has always been written From Here, from my heart.
2026 will mark 40 years since Puerto Vallarta cast an indelible spell on me, and after spending two weeks here in 1986, my life was rerouted completely and utterly, and in February of 1991, I moved here permanently. When I started writing my column, it was for all the people like me, who I used to be, trapped in a cold environment, planning a vacation to this amazing city.
Fast forward from eight years of writing a weekly column with a 750-word count for the Vallarta Tribune that abruptly stopped publishing, then switching to PV Mirror until it teetered on the edge of oblivion two years ago, when founder and publisher Allyna Vineberg, in deteriorating health, could no longer physically do the work.
And now, two years later, neither can I.
On December 31st, 2025, the Vallarta Mirror and its weekly companion, the Rearview Mirror, will cease publication - that is to honor obligations to my advertisers. My contributors, all who have lives, will be fine.
And I will continue to do what I love above all else - writing about Vallarta and particularly about our thriving entertainment industry. From Here will continue to be published in VallartaCalendar.com (Around Town) and on Facebook exactly as it is now. It is all the other stuff not created by me that will drift away.
Let me be clear - I have a chronic neck condition that is exacerbated by hours in front of a computer screen. Not life-threatening, just life interrupting. So, I am open to talking about the future of Vallarta Mirror if there is/could be/should be one. Perhaps there is someone who wants, no, not wants, someone who can afford to revive the PV Mirror's printed persona.
I have lived a fabulous life thus far, and frankly, it pi**es me off that I cannot physically do whatever I want anymore. My body has given me a clear and firm warning - do only what gives you utter joy, or I will shut you down.
My utter joy is seeing and listening to Vallarta at play, then writing about that.
Trying to convey in mere words to those who could not be with me at the concert or a pick-up singalong in a restaurant, the vibrant colors of the voices, the bodies, the souls laid bare of our exquisite artistic community, bursting with love of their craft, having to share parts of themselves with me personally and with you, my dear readers by happy default. That's what I have to/want to do with the rest of my life without pressure.
Thanks for reading; I feel better already, From Here.
Marcia Blondin Editor VallartaMirror.com