A decade or two ago, I used to work for the Federal Government. Specifically, the Department of Justice. As such, I would be able to tell you when, if you were so planning, to commit a crime and flee the country. Edward Snowden didn’t need my advice […]
Everyone in the neighborhood knew her as the lady with the shopping cart. Everywhere and anytime she could be found with it. Her idea was that one never would know when you needed to carry stuff that was just to much to bear. It seemed too close […]
Let me tell you a story. Talk? Dance? What did it all matter when there was a wheelbarrow to turn? There was no crowd to please. Where have you been all my life? I hide. I run. I shake. I shiver. I breathe. I sigh. I need […]
One of the things I love most about travel is architecture. Now, I understand that sounds rather abstract. I love trying to understand how building structure mirrors the values of the particular society in which they are located. Many years ago, along with art history lasses, I took […]
She looked out the car window with her nose out in the air just like her doggie used to do. She had the strongest sense of dejavu but couldn’t place it. She knew she had felt this scene before. She had smelled this. She had soaked this […]
I just moved into a new skyscraper in downtown Los Angeles. Many of the other buildings around my new digs are new as well. However, there were buildings here before. There were warehouses and factories, for example. There are still many warehouses and factories in Los […]
He looked out the window onto the remnants of a life that was. A town that was once vibrant now filled with antique stores celebrating a past that came too quickly. Every day now, he would wake up in a panic as he saw that he […]
Growing up in a Puerto Rican household in the South Bronx wasn’t easy. There was crime, asthma and vacant lots all around us. The Bronx had burned at one point and it is still building up. There were also superstitions for every type of occasion that […]
It started off with a smell. An odor. A sense of deja vu. I recognized that smell but couldn’t quite place it. I looked around walking up to the meters. It was a basement afterall and there could be a gas leak or other odd event. It is […]
Time was running out. She needed to make it back to Central Park before her carriage turned back into pumpkins. Fairy god-mother had changed the rules on her midway. It was a game of survivor at this point. She carried her mother’s bones in her backpack […]
