Or how kids have their plans and do not care about your Photo by Neslihan Gunaydin on Unsplash...
Your Kids’ Indiscriminate Pruning Independence
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Parenting
Okay, Take Two. And a Humble Brag.
Formally Announcing Unequivocally Ambiguous My wife, Justine, and our oldest daughter, Jovie, went...
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 really...
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...
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...
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...
The Royal Pains of Parenting No One Tells You About
My daughter was pretending her animal figurines were lively dinosaurs roaring at each other....
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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...