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The Struggles of Teaching Your Kids a Second Language
Solving the conundrum of existence with Spanish, bad words, and Catholic guilt One of Descartes’...
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...
Obscure Names for Hating Others and Their Languages
Yo compro pan francés and other lingo-curiosities Part 1 Xenoglossophobia is the fear of learning...
My Psychic Ruined My Bladder
Happiness is just one life-altering belief-switcheroo away As a salesman, I don’t have beliefs of...
English is Harder Than You Will Ever Know
What ESL speakers hear when you say ‘huh?’ “Your presentation skills are great, and you have deep...
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...
I Was Grounded Most of My Childhood, A Month at a Time
Flunking at being a robot in Catholic School (33/40) It all would’ve been fine if the school...
Weed, Cocaine, and Riding a Mule Around the World
Photo by Ashwini Chaudhary(Monty) on Unsplash I was telling someone at work how when I first moved...
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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
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Is a Father a Man If He Only Has Daughters?
The Vasectomy Dialogues: The Obsession Over Having Boys I laughed at how amazing it was that all this time bringing my oldest daughter to get “Paletas,” and she never goes, “That one! I want the...