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Storytelling
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...
The Stories We Tell To Help You Part With Your Money
Twice a year, the insurance company I worked for would get all its salespeople together to receive...
The Royal Pains of Parenting No One Tells You About
My daughter was pretending her animal figurines were lively dinosaurs roaring at each other....
The phantom limb sensation of a $100 bill I’ve never owned
"People don't really want to be rich," I told myself as I looked around the empty conference room...
Money-Making Seminars Promised Me the American Dream
The stranger made a beeline toward my wife and me through the sea of Christmas shoppers drowning...
Making Art That Reflects Who You Are
And the benefits of knowing about the spotlight effect I watched a video with text that read, “me...
UnFinished Business – Video
I performed this piece at the Mystic Theatre last year during West Side Story’s annual Grand Slam....
Entangling the Approval and the Pleasure of Your Art
In art-making, it is very important to learn to distinguish between the intrinsic pleasure of the activity and the approval, feedback and acceptance from the audience outside of ourselves.
Art That Lives Beyond the Page
Calling all storytellers, comedians, and solo-performers My buddy and novelist Kyle Rutkin is...
Recent Articles
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...