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I wish I could talk in length about the things you really want to know like all the specifics about Mexico and its history but I don’t know much about it yet and I’m learning about it right alongside you. However, I do know the culture. I know it because it hasn’t changed much in […] Read more

Get to know real Mexico. Start Here. You’re Mexican? People would ask me when I told them my name. Followed by something like, I thought you were Black, Samoan, Hawaiian or something else. I realized then that everyone has an image of what Mexicans “should” look like and depending on the region you’re from Mexicans […] Read more

Growing up, I don’t recall ever going on a “vacation.” My parent’s didn’t even drive for the longest time. They had to wait on my uncle, who owned a car, to come take us into town to purchase the necessary food and items for the work week. I don’t even ever recall going out to […] Read more

Lesson Learned: I had a love hate relationship with summers. I loved the fact that we were no longer in school but I knew that on the very first day of summer I’d be getting up at the crack of dawn put my long sleeve button up shirt and head out to the cotton fields, […] Read more

Sometimes I feel down, overwhelmed, frustrated, elated, happy along with a whole other mix of emotions that come and go with this human condition we call life. Today, however, I can’t seem to help feeling grateful. Why? Because I’m not a slave, I wasn’t born into a caste system and I have free will! What?! […] Read more

Get my NEW BOOK: My Spanish SUCKS! 101 Simple Mexican Dichos y Refranes for People on the Go. A quien no le gusta el sabor dulce y rico del quiote. Lo malo es que muy poca gente sabe de donde viene o como se hace. Pero ahora vamos a ver como se hace este quiote […] Read more

Let me tell you something you already know — you’re kinda weird. I’m weird. Everyone is weird. Some of us are weirder than others, of course. What I mean is that society has a way of pulling us in the same direction. The pressure to conform and go with the flow is so massive it’s […] Read more

Beep. Beep. Beep. Beeeeeeeeeep. My ride was here. As I gathered my small duffel bag from the living room floor, my first thought was man Armando better lay off the horn, he’s going to wake everybody in the neighborhood. It was early morning as I stepped out into the cool summer breeze. The sun was […] Read more

I’ll be very honest. Growing up, I did not like menudo. I didn’t like the smell, the texture or the taste but it was more the smell, I really didn’t like the smell. Menudo is definitely an acquired taste. Matter of fact, many of the foods I eat now I didn’t eat growing up. Foods […] Read more