Time flies when you are busy. And the last 19 years have flown by all too rapidly. On the one hand, I feel like I have missed out on a lot of personal living. I did give up a lot since we founded The Capital City Hues back in 2006. For the first 14 years, we published every other week without fail.

There were no vacations although I was able to get away for four days here and there.

One time, I met my friends Juan Guerrero and Teresa Tellez-Guíron in Mexico City on a Thursday after I got the Hues to the printer. After experiencing the Great Pyramids, we drove to Morelia where they owned a condo and celebrated Día de los Muertos in Pátzcuaro, visiting cemeteries and small towns that specialized in producing different items. And we lived a week or more in the space of four days and I was in Madison by Monday. That was my life. And I did write 2-3 stories from the experience and didn’t even take a tax deduction.

And then all of that changed when in 2010, Heidi Pascual, my co-everything since 1999 decided to leave the U.S. and return to her native Philippines due to the crash of print advertising as advertising continued to migrate to the Internet. Not only was it a challenge for The Capital City Hues, but also for Heidi’s Asian Wisconzine, a monthly publication. For Heidi, it was the right decision.