Subject analysis: In High School, I never got the chance to read a book that understood me. Instead, I was left with books that I disidentified and only read the […]
You start the long six hours drive on the lone desert highway void of life except tumbleweeds and sage brush. Your thoughts tumble and circle back like the dust devil […]
The last time I saw my baby cousin we were all in my mother’s backyard. My dad had set up one of my mom’s sun lounger chairs in front of […]
My father’s father was the first to face the crippling name. Though I do not know the ins and outs, I see what the name has done to him. The […]
My bare feet skipped through the thick, nighttime air, insensible to the encompassing zizz as hordes of malaria laden mosquitos hovered and buzzed, attacking in fierce, airborne squadrons. The mouth […]
As we stepped out of the elevator to the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, I couldn’t help but stare at the badge that was given to me to allow me into […]
I look around this room, full of so much youth. We are already flowered but budding new limbs with a tremendous ache as we reach to become more. We all […]
My whole family is Mexican. I am Mexican, my parents are Mexican, my cousins are Mexican, my grandparents are Mexican, it goes on for a while. We’re all pretty Mexican, […]
When I was in fifth grade, I got lice. Addendum: in fifth grade, my whole Girl Scout troop got lice after spending the weekend before Thanksgiving camping in a lodge […]
My dad’s 1996 Toyota Land Cruiser barreled down the I-5 freeway, sending gentle wafts of balmy air over my mother, father and sister. Like hot breath, it descended directly beyond […]
let out a deep sigh as I looked in the fogged up mirror with a smile. My wet hair touches my back and towel wrapped around my body. In a […]
was surprise that our company was the transportation for Carlos Santana and his entourage for his concert in 2019 in San Diego. I have worked as a limo driver for […]
His name was Pablo, he is like our ancestors before us, another grain of sand in the sea of humanity. You will not find him in any books of history, […]
The four musketeers Jose, Joel, Jorge and Alfonso. We met in junior high. Joel’s family is from Ensenada Mexico. Joel is my best friend also my best man at my […]
I was nineteen years old and medically discharged from the military when I first started college. After the winter semester, I was academically suspended for maintaining a low GPA—I didn’t […]
Health inequalities exist in varying levels among many regions and ethnic groups, but among Indigenous North American groups health inequalities are much higher and typically more severe than for almost […]
January 22. Monday. The sky is clear and sunny, the air still. At least, that’s how I remember it–campus empty of people at 11am, which actually isn’t very likely. At […]
Coffee makes me a might nervous when I drink it.” Karl Childers, Sling Blade Each morning in the United States, 172, 437, 895 people awaken with the same vague feeling […]