Do you remember that Loverboy’s song “working for the weekend”? I wished that applied to me. Instead I work all weekend long. So, I work during the workweek so that I can keep working on the weekend. Such is life in the non-profit understaffed, bleed-you-to-death world. Besides working […]
Teeth dripping blood from the finger stumps Tongue salty from the anger-shed tears that have clumped Be gone you mythical beast of compassion And show your true moral compass and self-passion That lies strewn about the restaurant gutter Take your falsehoods and buy some twenty-percent friends They […]
Another Monday morning is here. The winter chill is starting to creep in. And pirates off the coast of Africa are being subjected to Britney Spears’ music; which apparently is serving as a deterrent. Blasting music to annoy others is nothing new. I remember when I lived in […]
Terror Terrorized Traces of escape befuddle the mind The hand wrings forth what the taped mouth could not endorse The glass eyes hemorrhage To the point of breakage Locked jaw and gritted teeth There is no respect to bequeath Scalding water peels the soul Leaving behind pails and […]
Sundays were a very special day growing up in my household. It was a day where I got to play board games with my mom and we sang and danced together. There were no cell phone or iPad application games that we individually played for hours on end. […]
I get cold very easily. I am Puerto Rican after all. Meaning, that I like the heat. Although, oddly enough, I suffer from heat rashes. If it is too cold I hive. Too hot, I turn into a bumpy-faced monster. Some would say that is not very adaptive. […]
When you walk the streets of New York you should avoid eye contact with all people. Avoid eye contact with the crazies, the self-talkers, and even the handsome model types for those will turn on you faster than women can line up for a Prada sample sale or […]
A recent study found that disruptive innovators in the business world tend to be narcissists. I think we can clearly see that with the late Steve Jobs. By all accounts, including his own, he was exceedingly narcissistic (in the laymen’s definition of said personality trait – and let’s […]
I just euphorically finished running on my treadmill despite all my ailments and I was so eager to hit the imaginary applause button that I nearly fell off the moving walkway. I shrugged off my clumsiness reminding myself I had just accomplished a great feat and was soundly […]
The doors to the commuter train are jammed up again, the bells are ringing and we are not moving. Sigh. It’s hot. It is 6pm and the work day has been long and brutal. The train staff start speaking to each other over the PA system. It is […]
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