A Latino in an Ascot Drinking Hot Cocoa
The makings of a friendship and a coffee shop during the pandemic View from Grand Central...
A Plate of Red Bean Soup and My Parents’ Animosity Towards Each Other
The Hardest Conversation I Had Before Moving to the States Photo by Inside Weather on Unsplash...
A Gun in the Bum, a Bomb on a Horse and a Colombian Prayer
The Refuge of Thirst, Exhaustion and Laughter During Uncertain Times Photo by Anette Bratteberg...
Your Kids’ Indiscriminate Pruning Independence
Or how kids have their plans and do not care about your Photo by Neslihan Gunaydin on Unsplash...
Okay, Take Two. And a Humble Brag.
Formally Announcing Unequivocally Ambiguous My wife, Justine, and our oldest daughter, Jovie,...
Please, Stop!!!!
It’s not earwax, your kids just don’t want to hear it. Please, stop!!!!! I shouted at the...
We Have a Real Problem!
Illegally reconnecting utility services in a third-world country Photo by Tim Mossholder...
A Crumpled Last Will and Testament
What stands behind picture-perfect parenting Petaluma, California. Photo by author. I’m not...
Video Performance: My Girls Did Not Know What to Do with Jet Lag
In this video, I perform snippets from my essay, "Buying Sushi in Dubling at 3 in the Morning."
Playing Boleros on a Ukulele
Story about my uke.
Video Performance: My Girls Did Not Know What to Do with Jet Lag
In this video, I perform snippets from my essay, “Buying Sushi in Dubling at 3 in the Morning.”
A Post-Pandemic Matisse Pastoral
Of the Norovirus and Other Joys of Pietri Dish Parenting “I’d rather die on my feet than live on...
Bad Decisions Are More Palatable When the Whiskey is Good
As I speed towards the center of the room, I feel a presence next to me. I wonder if my paranoia...
Buying Sushi in Dublin at Three in the Morning
I was in Dublin this last summer, and if you think Ireland is super Duper white, then you would be...
A Loogie on the Face
Fernando Londono was addressing Colombia’s congress when a Senator stood up, upset by the...
Video Performance: The Hair Brushing Vortex
I performed this story at the West Side Stories in Petaluma. It's based on an essay I wrote and...
You will never poop in peace again
I have only pulled my pants up without wiping once in my life. It was because I felt the big one...