When I was asked what my favorite body part is? It was not the kind of question I get asked every day When I mentioned this question to my friends... read more →
My right big toe has been black and blue since the time old Benny Navarro got me a job working on the docks at the Port of Kenosha Standing in... read more →
Legs strapped to the delivery table like a wish bone my heart strapped to my wife’s rib making a wish the doctor’s holding the baby’s head like a short prayer... read more →
One Saturday night in nineteen thirty-nine in a little pueblecito down in South Texas the ballroom doors of El Charro’s place were left wide open as the colorful sounds of... read more →
Only in America could I flip through the slick pages of LIFE and find the only Chicanos I have ever seen grace that magazine portrayed in living color sprawled dead... read more →
I still cannot remember the first name of the funeral home but the second name was Hooverman I think and as I tried to follow the mapquest directions I must... read more →
' Honey, I will go get the string you want....just wait here...I' ll be right back' as she walked down the hallway at St. Mary's Hospital the african-american cleaning lady... read more →
The researcher tried to explain to the radio audience that a black 16 year old girl living in the projects being poor uneducated was actually in the best position of... read more →
One spring day, it always seems to happen in spring one spring day, out of the blue the other woman popped into my life I wasn’t looking for a relationship... read more →
During my freshmen year in college I had the urge to continue my wrestling career which did not need to be resurrected but at that time in my life I... read more →