My maternal grandmother, La Mama Anto' gave light to a child nearly every three years or so. She repeated this pattern ten times. To give light to a child is a Sicilian expression meaning "to give birth". By the time her tenth child was born, my grandmother's eldest child [...]
It's been a while since my last blog post! You may be wondering what happened. What happened is that I have a newly designed website and it took many intense hours to pull it together. I'm hoping this blog post will reach my subscribers. (I'm also hoping you will [...]
Thinking about my mom and dad today. April 25th was the date of their wedding anniversary. They always celebrated their anniversary. They bought gifts for each other and often went out for dinner while my sisters babysat me. Being the youngest in the family, the caboose, I always felt that [...]
Sayulita: birdsong wakes me up, birdsong and ocean waves are music to my ears as i write, sheltered, here at the casita, from the noisy sun-and-warmth-seekers' holiday madness in this beach town here at the casita, an enormous stuccoed wall painted white and covered in pink bougainvillea creates a container [...]
a stream of consciousness flows from my brain to my fingers to the keyboard to the computer screen my typing fingers are ants scrambling frantically, trying desperately to preserve their lives as a stream of Raid jets forth from a blue can held in the hands of a myrmecophobic person...i'm [...]
