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.
Lately, my left hand has been itching like crazy. I’m right handed, and I make it a point to stay out of the garden (ruling out poison ivy). Besides, anybody who grew up in a poor Puerto Rican household knows that itchy hands are a supernatural signal that […]
I am too sleepy to make my coffee I am too blind to find my dropped contact lens I am too anesthetized to blow out my hair I am too freaked out by the swooshing sounds of my heartbeat I am too uncoordinated to make perfect cheese triangles […]
Today was surreal. And I had no cocktails to mitigate its disquieting reality. I truly need to learn to carry a flask around.
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 […]
The morning sky was dark My head and hair frizzy and fuzzy filled with songs of the lark First, there was a bunny Surely, he was real Or was I just hungry Then, there was my dog Surely, he wasn’t real Seemed I needed some grog Yet my […]
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 […]
Feeling a bit like a pig in a blanket Belly full of savory Hawaiian pork Roasting under the sun’s hot honey droplet Crab legs walking about on the beach brisket My brain feeling a bit like songs by Bjork The waves providing me with great cosset A beach […]
I stare at the empty table Wondering who should I invite For the table looks so ripe for a friendship cradle But my soul sounds an alarm For too many people pretend to want to connect With a globally affected charm A lack of time renders many unable […]
Let’s get one thing straight. I am not a food snob, equally appreciative of pasteles on the side of the road in Puerto Rico (and strangely, as it turns out, Oahu), unidentifiable street meat from a cart in New York City, and bizarre fusion foods and haute cuisine […]
They are coming Must rise up against the quicksand They are coming Must be steadfastly strident and headstrong They are coming Must push back against the naysayer’s wall They are coming Must not blink the confidence asunder They are coming Must reabsorb the jitters into the veins They […]
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