Growing up we read fairy tales that had happy endings. However, those happy endings included defeating some kind of villain. We were brought up with the big bad wolf concept. Then we have all these superhero movies that have a grand, larger-than-life villain. We’ve been exposed throughout our […]
She was not a big fan of insects or any creepy-crawlies, for that matter. But she lived and let. She always thought it was bad luck to squash an insect. And, forget about spiders. No good could come from killing one. She did need some good luck coming […]
Everything in her life was out of a fairy tale. Her name. Her gifts. Her clothes. A good fairy tale where she mysteriously bypassed all hardships going straight to living the happily ever after piece. Or rather, pieces. She structured her days at college perfectly so that she […]
Once upon a time, not so long ago when I was a young girl in the South Bronx, I wanted to be a fairy. I knew about Tinker Bell and I wanted to flitter around as a tiny being who could get in and out of […]
A few days back I noted that I do not care for fairy tales. They are a tad bit boring in my view and rarely offer any originality. But that is not to say I hate all fairy tales. I was always partial to one, that being Beauty […]
Growing up I didn’t care much for fairy tales. I didn’t see how those stories were really relevant to my day-to-day life in the South Bronx. Sure, I wanted to get out of the burned down neighborhood but I didn’t see that living in a remote […]
The abandoned buildings throughout their neighborhood were sketchy with rats, possibly raccoons and crazed drug-addled people milling within them. Yet their claustrophobic heatless thin-walled apartments were no safer. They would go down the stairs carefully to not draw attention to themselves. Not that anyone was looking […]
It’s just another manic monday. The sun is rising and a storm is coming. She could feel it in her bones that needed extreme mending and tending. But how could she be fixed if she can’t even stand tall and demand what is due to her? She […]
Ok. So don’t judge me as being weird for saying this but while touring Kamakura, Japan, I skipped and danced every so often throughout the whole day. I bet that part doesn’t sound so weird. The weird part, or rather the part you might find weird, is […]
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