Happiness is just one life-altering belief-switcheroo away As a salesman, I don’t have beliefs of...
Society
A Loogie On Your Face
On Issues of Form, Content and Feedback Fernando Londono was addressing Colombia’s congress when a...
Rolling Into Trauma With My Fuchsia and Magenta Unisex Rollerblades
The castle of little white lies my mom built to protect us Rafa was shot with a BB shotgun by his...
Under the shade of coconut trees
I bought happiness at a farmer's market in Kauai for seven dollars. It only lasted a few minutes —...
A Latino Supports Trump’s Super PAC
Espionage, immigration reform and whiskey “Let’s go to the Trump hotel,” my friend suggested when...
Lack of Faith is a Losing Battle
Am I the only atheist hoping for rapture? Maybe when all the Christians leave, the rest of us, the...
Dynamite For Our Old Wounds
A Colombian New Year’s Tradition ‘El año viejo” was a tradition I grew up with in Colombia. A...
Survival Strategies for Sleep-Deprived Parents
Crank-R-Us Today is a very important day for me. I’m launching ‘Speed-R-Us.’ “Speed-R-Us” will be...
Becoming a Feminist in a Masculine World
Where is Waldo’s Tip? “I am not your audience,” my wife snapped. “I don’t think those jokes...
The Space Between a Cough and Compassion
During the pandemic, I flew back to the Bay Area, and I sat next to a woman with a terrible and...
The Refuge of Thirst, Exhaustion and Laughter
A prayer all Colombians know I was probably never as cool as when I dated Isabella — a divorced...
Bathrooms for All… Except for Babies
In California, we have bathrooms designed to help people with physical disabilities. It is weird...
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Hurry and Have Kids to Prevent Population Collapse
Or should people mind their business? Photo by Loegunn Lai on Unsplash I don’t believe people should not have kids because of the “state” of the world. Compared to what? World War II? World War I?...
Silly Rabbit, Trinkets Don’t Replace Hugs
The Impulse to Buy Mementos While Being Away From Home The first few years after my parent’s divorce, my sister and I would eagerly wait for my mom to come home from work every night. We were living...
The Media’s Pressure on Average Men
The Vasectomy Dialogues: An Evolutionary Defense for Promptly Coming Photo by Irv P on Unsplash Scholars and women advocates like to talk about the effects of the media on women, but nobody talks...