I’m odd and fuzzy Curly and straight Tired yet energized Skeptical but filled with faith Even-keeled and erratic Swimming yet still Ocean deep bobbing at the surface On display while hidden Do you know who I am? Junniper Jasmine Jasione Jasper
What’s is up with our hippocampus these days? The hippocampus is a region in our brain that ostensibly helps people tell whether an object is near or far. Considering that I walk into walls and chairs all the time, I have a feeling my hippocampus is a little. […]
Willy wonka, gratitude, silly, nostalgia, identity
Baby we were born to run It’s a perfectly quaint, slightly dark nostalgic room like a 1950s pharmacy. The bottles on the cabinet sure seemed like old-school items to lift her spirits. It wasn’t her home. It never would be. It was now or never to break free. […]
John Waters from wacky to mainstream could be my biographer I grew up in the South Bronx where I witnessed death, mayhem and despair. I also saw young kids take paths that led them out of such a situation. When I first left my neighborhood to go to […]
That’s it: I’m Going Back to New York As you know I miss New York terribly and I just have not been able to get used to this 70 degree weather. I miss the constant snow falls that the east coast has been getting hit with. I miss […]
Living in time-zone limbo The last five weeks have been a bit surreal for me to the point that at times I feel like I am in the television show Lost. I now shuffle between San Francisco and New York; flying out every two weeks or so to […]
A Puerto Rican in San Francisco Do you know the song by Sting called “Englishman in New York.” It’s a pop Jazz wannabe fusion melody. Admittedly, it is a little catchy but would be wholeheartedly out of place nowadays with its phrases such as “I’m a legal alien.” […]
The last Mojito in Dresden Ok. This is not a piece about the last mojito in Dresden. For all I know there are plenty of mojitos to be had in the quaint German Town. Although, it is so cold in Dresden, that understandably there could be a run […]
City Structures Make Me Feel so Empowered and Humble: This Year’s Past Travel As a New Yorker I love tall buildings. I loved Spiderman, growing up, for that very reason. If you want to be a super hero you need some tall buildings from which to do grand […]