Category: la vida
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Danger
The other evening, on my bus commute home from work I was reading the Parable of the Talents and suddenly I recalled how my mother understood the danger my work/life puts me in before I did. I burst into tears on the bus When my little apartment in Corona was broken into and ransacked, around…
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Un Año Que Viene, Otro Que Se Va
It’s that time of year, time to wrap presents, make coquito, and look back at the year that is just about to come to a close and what a year it has been. I’ve traveled more for work more than ever. I committed more time to blogging and writing and relationships ended and started and…
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FA 3020
Yes, I can be added as another single Rican mother to the food stamp rolls, for a month and a half at least. ::sigh:: I went, for the first time ever to the food stamp office yesterday. I entered holding my breath and my nerves. When I got to the first floor, the line was…
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Breaking Up is Hard to Do Pero Does it Really Have to Be?
When I entered the relastionship that is now ending, I did so with so many expectations and anxiety. It’s not like I had great examples of healthy relationships growing up with lies, egos, infidelities, edible crotchless panties and suicide attempts all as shining lights of what a heterosexual marriage like life could end in. No…
Maegan E. Ortiz - Mamita Mala 