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The Media’s Pressure on Average Men
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I Listened In On My Buddy’s Vasectomy
The Vasectomy Dialogues: A Vas Was Severed, But a Bond Was Created (Trigger warning: The following...
Sharing Complications of Unreliable, Lyrical, Guilty Pleasures
The criminals in our lives we can’t help but love Sometimes, I listen to songs I don’t want others...
The Scariest, Most Turbulent Flight I’ve Ever Been On
The Pandemic and the fleeting popularity of compassion Before the second peak of the pandemic, I...
My Mother-in-Law Asked Me to Kevorkian Her
Adult Diapering My Fear of Death “Just fucking shoot me.” My mother-in-law has asked me several...
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...
Who Cried This Morning?
Parenting and learning the value of everything we hold dear (21/40) “Who cried this morning?” is a...
Is the Cancun Airport an Airport? Or a Zoo?
What traveling nightmares are made of (10/40) I don’t know if you have ever traveled through...
40 Days, 40 Stories, 40 Years
Intro to an Existential Challenge (1/40) Photo by Annie Spratt on Unsplash A friend of mine wrote...
Pablo Escobar Left Many Problems Behind And 99 Hippos is One of Them
“Did you hear about the hippopotamuses in Colombia?” I love people’s random comments when...
Go On, Sit on His Lap!
Parenting and Surviving Christmas Parades and Santa’s Lap Photo by author. Calistoga, CA. Our...
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The library, Its Needles, Shards, and Empty Benches
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Lost in ‘La Hijueputa’ Translation
Can Translation Ever Capture the Ineffability of Language Soul? Photo by Tania Mirón on Unsplash I sat down to watch the acclaimed “Griselda” on Netflix, and it felt so good to hear the Colombian...
Contracting the Womb’s Real Estate
A warm summer morning and the beginning of a home birth. (Home Birth: Part 1) Photo by Pineapple Supply Co. on Unsplash It was a warm summer morning; I was sleeping on the living room futon so I...