The Avatar in Hair Curlers Remote-Controlling My Destiny Photo by TRIN WA on Unsplash I didn’t...
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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...
My first job and misdemeanor in the US — I Think
I was loving it. Do you want fries with that? I always tell people my first job in the United...
Rolling Into Trauma With My Fuchsia and Magenta Unisex Rollerblades
My mom’s storytelling convinced me to wear girly roller skates My mom got a pair of roller skates...
Heavy Whispering My Sins to the Man in Women’s Robe
The Parable of the Red Snapper Who Ate My Faith After our 10th-grade Philosophy teacher introduced...
My Wife Wants Me to Stop Lying About My Height
My childish, overactive mind stunted my development. Here is a secret. I’m not 5'9". I do tell...
My Psychic Ruined My Bladder
Happiness is just one life-altering belief-switcheroo away As a salesman, I don’t have beliefs of...
Begging For Free Bourbon
Having fun with writing outside of writing “Write every day, even if it’s just an email.” The...
Tomorrow is My Fortieth Birthday
Mistakes were made. Forty Stories. Forty Days. Petaluma, California. December, 2020. Photo...
Eating Donkey Meat and Maracuyá Juice
Risking Limb and Life to Get the Appliance Job Done At thirteen, my mom offered me as labor at my...
Squeezing the Green Out of the Rainbow
My very first business venture (37/40) My first business venture was a team effort between all the...
My Nickname in Fifth Grade
Or the hazards of avoiding homework to daydream (35/40) “The Riddle” was my nickname in fifth...
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The Auschwitz Dad Primer for Parenting
Drawing Parenting Wisdom From the Most Horrific Episode of Modern History Photo by Jerry Wang on Unsplash A friend texted me a link to the audiobook of Viktor Frankl’s “Man Search for Meaning.” I...
My Mom Slipping and Stumbling at a Foam Party to Embarrass Me
The Avatar in Hair Curlers Remote-Controlling My Destiny Photo by TRIN WA on Unsplash I didn’t kill him because I thought it was amusing. I had a green light to turn left, and as I started going, I...
The Blue Lobster and El Grupo de Barranquilla
Garcia Marquez, Drunken Colombian Artists, and 100 Years of Huevonadas! Mural of Gabriel Garcia Marquez on the pediment of the BellaVista Hotel in Cartagena de Indias by Pauline Clement — Wikimedia...