Have you ever watched the movie Armageddon? It was alright. I really didn’t care for the soundtrack. And I really didn’t care for the love story subplot. I mean, when an asteroid is about to hit earth and you are in the thick of preparations keep your head […]
It’s the end of the year and lists and retrospectives abound. One can imagine that Donald Trump made many lists-regardless of what they cover. Frankly, I am a bit tired of these news story lists. I am intrigued by the lists that outline great discoveries from the […]
When I was a tween I suffered through embarrassment after embarrassment. Some incidents truly mortifying. As a young girl, we go through very painful events in our lives that just make us cringe. Menstrual onset, pimples, and first bras are some of the most excruciatingly embarrassing moments in […]
There was a period of time, when I was young, in which it seemed I was headed towards a career in holography. I wasn’t a STEM student, although I was labeled as gifted. Yet, holograms were part of my thought considerations. There were times when it appeared that […]
I am ostensibly a data geek. Apparently always have been. Although, at times it has been by default. Take for instance when I worked at the US Department of Justice. I could add, I could create graphs and I could (more or less) explain the numbers. Bingo. I […]
My mother believed in the evil eye. She was deathly scared of the evil eye. She believed people could wish you evil and you could fall under subsequent continuous bad luck. There was a bit of time where she had really good luck, winning radio contest […]
I already know and have shared with you all that if a zombie apocalypse were to occur it would happen in the month of August. We have just a few more days left to see if it comes this year. Comets, weird elections, wildfires, floods are running rampant […]
Ever since I was a little girl growing up in the South Bronx, I noted that I was going to be different from the other Puerto Ricans in my neighborhood. I wanted to be different and to get out of the neighborhood. I saw change, from my […]
A while back when I was in graduate school getting my PhD in psychology, there were some cool psychology research studies that looked at how people said goodbye to each other at airports. The studies would look at how long people hugged for, who tended to hug, […]
There is an an old piece of weather folklore that notes “Red sky at night, sailor’s delight. Red sky at morning, sailor’s warning”. Red sky at morning is said to signal rain.” But what about red rain? I have always loved the Peter Gabriel song of Red Rain. It is […]