Open your beak or we are all cooked Downtown Petaluma, California. Photo by author....
Duck Dynasty and Dancing with the Stars
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Peanut Butter Breath
What did you just eat? Is that peanut butter in your breath? My wife asked me clearly annoyed at...
Thinking in Grammar Mistakes
The pitfalls of publishing a book as an ESL writer When people find out I speak English as a...
Mr. Policeman, I Am the Owner of the Car
I felt the cold water gliding through my body as I stroked toward the open ocean from Diego's...
Outpacing My Luck
Funny and satirical analysis of relationships and how people behave when they are traveling to other countries. Relationships, culture, society, travel, Mexico.
Wine Country Spoken Word Festival
A Confession and An Announcement When I started writing again, I just wanted to write. Whatever...
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A Latino in an Ascot Drinking Hot Cocoa
The makings of a friendship and a coffee shop during the pandemic View from Grand Central Coffee Shop. Petaluma, CA. Photo by author. No Latino in the history of humanity has ever pulled an ascot....
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 When I was growing up in Colombia, it wasn’t unusual to eat beans and find rocks in them. Back then,...
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 on Unsplash I was probably never as cool as when I dated Isabella — a divorced journalist with tattoos...