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My life is frito pie in a bento box, and that’s okay.

If you open my nightstand drawer, you’ll find an experiment. In the drawer are cardboard dividers from IKEA and a catch-all that spans the nightstand’s width. I took everything out of the drawer, and I’m only putting back the things I use daily and weekly. I don’t know how long this experiment will last, but…

Reading, Writing, and Civics

We have a duty to read. This much is true. Reading is a deontological ethic. We are responsible for learning about the world and its people through literacy. In the same sense, reading is like voting. We have a responsibility—a duty—to be informed about candidates and issues and to cast our votes. So if reading…

Voices in the Water

You have to dig deep in seasons of aridity when rocks are exposed and clouds hang suspended Because the rain ain’t coming and the lake’s gone dry and the ocean too salty to drink hold on tight to what you have plug the leaks keep it flowing in not flowing out Listen closely as the…

Mondays are supposed to be beginnings, a poem

i wanted the futureto solve my problemsand when it arrivedso did ii didn’t like itin the futureso I slept innostalgiaso back i goto the pastto dream back timeyesteryearand here i amand with my problemsavoiding hurtsmaking harmsthe future nowcascades retreatsof back and forthambivalencehere i amor was i whenwhere was i nowam i back then?

I think I was addicted to the news.

The lunatic is in the hallThe lunatics are in my hallThe paper holds their folded faces to the floorAnd every day the paper boy brings more Pink Floyd I canceled my New York Times and San Antonio Express-News subscriptions a few weeks ago. For a newsie like me, that’s remarkable. I’ve been reading the newspaper…

The Value of Asking Questions: A Writing Tutor’s Perspective

During a tutoring session, a student asked if she could interview me for an assignment. As tutors, we have certain boundaries in place, so I asked her what the interview was for. She explained that it was for another assignment, so I agreed to the interview, seeing no major rule violations. While we are only…

Reeling in a Poolside Fantasy: The Surprising Catch of an Afternoon Dream

In my dream, I was casting a fishing line in stormy conditions, and I was chest deep in turbulent water. I casted my line, gracefully and cautiously, as to not make a splash. I felt constant tension on the line, and I finessed the line when it was in the water, but I’d get nothing…

Goodbye, New York Times, San Antonio Express-News

The capital of the United States is Washington, D.C., but the capital of America is New York City, wrote the author Henry James. This political and cultural distinction is present in the New York Times, a phenomenal newspaper that I have subscribed to for the past few years. When I read the NYT, I get…


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