Trying to summarize what the decade brought, I share 10 highlights including movies, books, travel, theater and Some places. In this past 10 years most of the worthwhile things I did, I experienced together with, and sometimes through the eyes of, my children. 
1. Coyoacan. I now stay there every time I go to Mexico City. As I have become more aware of our indigenous past and the colonial period, I appreciate the little details and traces from the past. The same feeling I get from Oaxaca or Guatemala, but so much more accessible
2. Rumsey Map Collection. This decade I have worked with maps, teaching about cartography and I am writing a book on colonialism that relies heavily on this wonderful collection of maps blending the historical images with the wonders of technology, making them accessible to all
3. Roma. Of the many incredible journeys that the Mexican filmmakers gave us over the decade. Could well have put The Revenant, Shape of Water, Carne y Arena, or Gravity. Cuarón spoke to me in a personal manner that no other film could convey.
4. Ghibli Museum. The films of Hayao Miyazaki have always been a part of our family. But having the chance to see the place with such genius of imagination and creation, after having visited Kyoto and getting a glimpse fo the unique Japanese culture was inspiring and eye opening.
5. Hamilton. I have never really liked musicals. But my children showed me, with Les Miserables, that a musical could be dramatic and interesting - and then came Lin Manuel Miranda. I remember listening to the whole musical on a long flight, where I cried, and watching it. Wow!
6. Snowboarding. I could never really ski, until my children decided they wanted to learn how to snowboard, and I learned with them. The feeling of control of the board, gliding through the snow, with the air of the mountain hitting your face and the smell is simply incomparable.
7. Political Logic of Poverty Relief. The intellectual project that Beatriz, Federico and I embarked in ten years earlier, saw the light. The process of discovery and learning was a beautiful series of conversations punctuated by spurts of work between Mexico and Stanford.
The book tells an important truth: that poverty is not inevitable, and politics can help to alleviate it.
8. Ihla Grande. I traveled so widely during the past 10 years, very often for work, sometimes with the family, including trips to Finland, Italy, France, Germany, the UK, Spain, Russia, Japan, Colombia, Argentina, Peru, Guyana, Guatemala, and the Caribbean.
But Brazil will always have a special place because of the adventure Beatriz engaged with learning about violence and policing in the favelas, and respite of a charming island, so far from it all, yet just off the coast of Rio.
9. L’Amica Geniale. So little time for fiction. The decade I was mostly reading Young Adult fiction, to learn about what my children were reading. It took me quite a while and several new year’s resolutions, I finally got to read Elena Ferrante in the original Italian.
10. And ten Non-fiction recommendations: 1. The Great Sea (David Abulafia), 2. The Better Angels of Our Nature (Steven Pinker), 3. The Death of Aztec Tenochtitlan, the Life of Mexico City (Barbary Mundy), 4. Poor Economics (Abjihit Banerjee and Ester Duflo),
5. The Other Slavery (Andres Resendez), 6. The Art of Not Being Governed (James Scott), 7. Empires Crossroads (Carrie Gibson), 8. The Origins of Political Order (Francis Fukuyama), 9. Sapiens (Yuval Noah Harari), 20. The Great Escape (Angus Deaton).
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