I love to travel, try new foods, ingest caffeine, and watch political news coverage. A psychologist by training trying to bring a little common sense to it all.
Hop on Pop no more and other weird, wacky stories of people getting out of sticky situations It’s been a long week. A long weekend in that I spent four hours shopping for a dress to only come home and find the perfect one (brand new […]
Literal, physical and existential sticky situations while traveling If you love to travel and do it quite often, then you must have a hardy core and quick-thinking brain (of sorts). Cultural and language misunderstandings are the items Du jour oftentimes while out on the road. I […]
A fiery spring morning Spring comes and goes in a colorful blur The thrill is to catch the morning fire For it serves as a soul’s liqueur Synchronizing nature’s uplifting choir Earlier sun rays permeate the room The groggy-eyed morning travel is captivating The offshore waters […]
The five minutes of prayer and five seconds of clapping while traveling As the plane starts to pick up speed down the runway, slowly people start quieting their plane talk while their heart rate starts to mightily speed up. Look around as the plane speeds up and […]
Saunter and idle banter Chatter about non-matters Substance oozed out long before Your dog days of yore A deep hardy hearty laugh So muddy one needs a bath Your burrowed pensive looks Are all for your callously baited hooks I am not your marionette I don’t bow to […]
The ring of fire and sugar in Panama Growing up in a Puerto Rican household meant I ate tons of garlic-laden food, but barely any spicy food. Mexican food was not popular in my neighborhood. Chinese food was but it was the kind that made barbecue chicken wings. […]
She was born a decade after her sister. Such an age difference seemed insufferably insurmountable. By the time she was four, her sister was gone attending boarding school. She was left alone in an adult world with very few dolls. She didn’t even have her sister’s hand-me-downs for […]
A daily ritual Woke to a growing sprinkled field of yellow Chirping musical notes throughout the spectrum An owl hoots into the sunrise The rabbits scamper and mightily sniff Nearly forgot this was no serene monticello Instead I lay waste to a thorny plectrum Plucking out all […]
I am not a big party person. I like to go dancing at the clubs and go to a bar and have a few cocktails. Throwing a party in my house so that people can stomp all over and I have to then clean up afterwards….well, not so […]
Panama City has the Casco Viejo which resembles Viejo San Juan in Puerto Rico and Habana Viejo in Cuba. It is a beautiful thriving area that is under immense construction and redevelopment. Panama City also has Panama Viejo (Old Panama) which is to the eastern part of PanamaCity […]
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