Food is always an issue in my household: Eze likes his rice & beans, pork chops and viandas; I don’t. I’m usually met with incredulous faces (complete with gaping mouths and wide eyes) when I admit that I don’t like rice & beans at all. If you’re boricua, you have to like rice & beans, [...]
I just got home from a failed attempt at penetrating the biggest mall in this island (Plaza las Américas, of course, the center of everyyyything). I wanted to get a rare orchid for my mother: it was an dark purple plant with leaves that slightly shimmered as if gold dust had been sprinkled on them, [...]
I’m writing out of what could probably be a very out-of-place anger. I know everyone has the undeniable right to pursue his or her own happiness. So undeniable and common-sense is this right, that it was included in the U.S. Passport (it’s a small quote from some forefather dude who spoke nicely enough to be [...]
El 2008 me dejó más lecciones que muchos de los años anteriores. A través de penas y malratos, al fin entendí que no puedo “bregar” con mi carrera. Por más que me esfuerce por retener el interés y ser la más profesional y la más “echá pa’ lante”, definitivamente estoy tratando de caber en una [...]
To my aunt & progeny (and uncle too, if he’s so inclined to include himself): Very simple – if you so hate being related to me, what business is it of yours to keep coming into my blog to read whatever I have to say? The fact that you do and then go and make [...]