My father proudly showed me his new birth certificate that had our last name Mireles spelled with a “z” instead of “s’ Mirelez He said that my grandfather couldn’t write... read more →
When my son Sergio takes a bath, The water is never still. He thinks that he is in a fishbowl, and dives underneath the rim of the bathtub. After the... read more →
Courage is setting yourself free As she maneuvered her entourage of a motorized wheelchair trained assistance dog and personal assistant into the Olympic size swimming pool at the health club... read more →
The first day home she touched him the way you approach a not so familiar porcupine nice and slow the second day after leaving the maternity ward she held him... read more →
after I was asked to leave my home I lived with my nephew who was in law school in my hometown and he let me live there because he owed... read more →
My brother Junior didn’t remember what happened last weekend when he first opened the front door Omero and Charley entered in with drunken laughter talking about Janie’s hot cousin from... read more →
My children are old enough to know it is Father Day but the younger two are not old enough to work or buy gifts so my girlfriend got the gift... read more →
In sixth grade we’d walk down Hamilton Street beneath trees that were older than the houses Frank Ruiz, Richard Green, Elvis Norman the conversation was always about girls and swear... read more →