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Buying Homemade Greek Yogurt Through a Door Window
The Lengths We Covered in Barranquilla to Get Quality Bacillus Bulgaricus. Photo by Yasin Hoşgör...
The Struggles of Teaching Your Kids a Second Language
Solving the conundrum of existence with Spanish, bad words, and Catholic guilt One of Descartes’...
Dealing With the Police and My Mom’s Lack of Patience
Pyramid-Selling Cures for Cancer and Swimming in the Shallow I felt the cold water gliding through...
Hey, Put That Nose Away!
Scientific Concerns About The Long-Haul Effects of Wearing a Mask During the summer of 2021, I...
I Listened In On My Buddy’s Vasectomy
The Vasectomy Dialogues: A Vas Was Severed, But a Bond Was Created (Trigger warning: The following...
Strumming my Uke for Eternal Redemption
My life harboring musical secrets Growing up, I would see my sister sing around the house and my...
Asian Symbolism for Inefficient Parenting
Two bunnies, a stork, and the moon You show your kid how to do an entire night routine; the next...
Land of the Free, Home of the Brave, Suitcases of Scents
Clothes in the United States Have a Different Smell I don’t know what it is. I don’t know if,...
Stealing From Our Cousins to Teach Them a Lesson
My sister’s unlikely, bumpy road to Mama Bear I learned from Instagram that my niece and nephew...
Sharing Complications of Unreliable, Lyrical, Guilty Pleasures
The criminals in our lives we can’t help but love Sometimes, I listen to songs I don’t want others...
The State of the World is No Excuse to not Have Kids
The extreme rollercoaster of procreation and parenting When you decide to have kids, you need to...
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Almost Losing a Finger to Save My Life
Life has a price and so does each body part Photo by Tamanna Rumee on Unsplash My mistake was clearly dumb. We were in the middle of the pandemic, and after getting my MasterClass subscription, I...
Spanking The Elderly Into Better Behavior
Corporal abuse as a universal and compassionate law Photo by Daniel K Cheung on Unsplash It is not often, but every now and then, I’ll find myself in a conversation about how corporal punishment is...
I Chemically Straightened My Hair Because My Family Was Ashamed
Parenting and the illusion of reprieve Petaluma, CA. May, 2021. Photo by author. “Scientifically handsome” is what most anthropologists might call me. I am not vain because there is no need to be...