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the ball is in your court. our love is on very thin ice.

You two make a very cute couple.
Posted by on Tue, 05 May 2009 00:24:00 GMT

the weirdest dream ever.

I just had the most strangest dream in my entire life - It was once rumored - maybe even by me, that before my family came to California from Mexico, they made a pit stop in Tennessee. (not true.) but...
Posted by on Tue, 17 Mar 2009 04:18:00 GMT

Check out future posts on my new blog!

Hey Guys! Check out my future blog posts on my new blog: www.thismexicanamericanlife.com Happy New Year all!
Posted by on Mon, 05 Jan 2009 01:13:00 GMT

UNITY '08: Green Alleys by Jonathan Lebron

http://unitynews.org/2008/07/25/green-alleys/ I got the chance to take part of a podcast at UNITY '08. Providing some of the spanish translation for a story about Chicago's greener streets, Jonathan's...
Posted by on Fri, 25 Jul 2008 22:44:00 GMT

training wheels

I'm grateful I met her. Even though nothing romantic will come out of it. I remember when she told me who she was: sophisticated, cultured, a strong Latina. Famous, I suppose. Courageous enough to fig...
Posted by on Thu, 20 Sep 2007 23:46:00 GMT

bunuelos

There's a boxer in the kitchen. I hear the beating, the punches wailing away. She's a fighter. Mom is beating up the masa for bunuelos on New Years Eve. It's as though she exorcises all sins, all the ...
Posted by on Tue, 07 Aug 2007 19:05:00 GMT

nobody and nothing

Nobody and nothing has motivated me more than her. Not school, parents, work or God herself. I've never been asked to sacrifice more than the summer moment when I shelved books in order -among so much...
Posted by on Sun, 05 Aug 2007 14:57:00 GMT

hyphenated

It's difficult to explain ones existence as a body of hyphenated cultures.  Simply because what is decidedly appropriated isn't such a simple process. There's this long deliberation of what ...
Posted by on Mon, 09 Jul 2007 00:25:00 GMT

(flash fiction) The Color of Things

(rough draft) She says she prefers black and white photos. That there might be honesty in their hueless form. Something timeless maybe. I don't buy any of this, of course. there's no convincing a...
Posted by on Sun, 06 May 2007 01:35:00 GMT

A Chicano at Walden Pond

the leaves hold a golden crisp just as Thoreau had promised seven novembers ago when i unread his wrinkles from stems of history in east L.A., Wa...
Posted by on Sat, 21 Apr 2007 18:44:00 GMT