The Rake Magazine

Living in the small rural town of Santo Tomás, in Nicaragua, is hard, but without my Rake it would be downright unbearable. Luckily, my brother and various friends know that I love keeping up to date with Twin Cities affairs, and have enough compassion to send me The Rake every once and a while. Semana Santa, the holy week before Easter, is especially rough. There is absolutley nothing to do but sweat and watch religious processions. Two days before the procession of the positions of the cross these young men ambushed me in the middle of reading. The day after, they were off to "bring the devil." Their role is to run through town screaming, scaring small children, and mocking the pious Catholics that walk in the processions.