December 31, 2020 Because the night: Punk, jokes and a little frightened girl Note: this is one of those late Gen Xer’s lamentations of growing up in the pre-Internet days. I beg thee, dear reader, forgive the…
December 28, 2020 Hillary/Hilaria: what’s in a name? I grew up a white-appearing girl in American border town with an American mother of Mexican ancestry and a Mexican father who’d immigrated to…
December 27, 2020 If you make sure you’re connected, the writing’s on the wall Tl; dr: I went to a fun party. But this isn’t about the party. It’s about how I interact with the world. I’m never…
December 7, 2020 Wouldn’t it be nice if we were older There is a condominium complex in the beachfront town of San Carlos. The exteriors are white stucco with rod iron stairs leading to the…
December 6, 2020 Now John at the bar is a friend of mine There was this kid I grew up from middle school with who was whip crack smart. He was popular and a jock and nothing…
December 4, 2020 That’s my daughter Between fourth and fifth grade my parents took us to Orlando to go to Disney World. I had caught bronchitis immediately before this in…
November 1, 2020 Mexico lindo y querido: Day of The Dead (Día de los muertos) (2017)I miss Día De Los Muertos in Tucson. I used to make own headbands. It was an important part of my life in my…
September 11, 2020 Or you can start speaking up I am not the sum total of my trauma. Most days I can walk around divorced of its implications that once kept me from…
August 8, 2020 Ready to go Michael’s bar mitzvah was the event of summer 1992. His parents rented out the banquet hall at La Paloma and people flew in to…
August 8, 2020 Send it out into the blue I can’t help but think of my mom. It isn’t the same but it’s as close as anyone’s ever gotten. ——————– I got the…
July 13, 2020 Gossip folks Plummers test sewer lines by pouring dye down a drain and waiting for it to show up in the sewer feed at the curb….
July 5, 2020 A quien le pertenece To Vene on her 17th birthday: Happy birthday you little weirdo! Take a pause while I shower you with advice. Life is about to…
June 24, 2020 It’s, like, so bitchin’ Ok, so like OMG, misogyny is totally hidden in a lot of places. Even in linguistic bias. Girls spread linguistic trends faster. They are…
June 6, 2020 And you do what they told ya: autism and pathological demand avoidance Brass Against, for these who don’t know is a Rage Against The Machine cover band. If you don’t know the song, it’s from 1992…
May 6, 2020 Into the mystic Tonight, I am listening to punk music and remembering every boy I ever crushed on for knowing how to skate or play guitar or…
May 2, 2020 Ode to my favorite pair of jeans ever I was 15 when we metYou, a size Junior 13 pair of Arizona brand jeans from JC PenneyWhen I left a pen in you…
April 24, 2020 More I have this thing. It’s not an addiction, per say. More of…a non-constructive self-soothing mechanism I learned from my parents. My parents both have…
March 18, 2020 Got a black magic woman More on the woo woo. But I’ll keep it short this time. So you know that I gave a speech at the U.N. back in…
March 8, 2020 Good vibrations I want you to know it wasn’t all bad. When I close my eyes and think of safe, it is a peach sherbet golf…
March 6, 2020 I fought the law and I won: Teen Court 1996 Dead Kennedys…aw yeah. Anyway, by the time I was 12, it as pretty much drilled into me that my task in life was to…
July 8, 2019 Mexico Lindo y Querido Waking up and going for a pre-breakfast walk on the beach. Fresh cut papaya. Chilaquiles con crema. Menudo, the white kind. Beer out of…
