Some people come up expecting to win. We came up hoping not to lose.
From “Beyond the Code of the Streets” by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Ay, mi madre
5 MayYesterday, my mom asked if the car in front of us at the stoplight was a B-M-diablo.
Vacation
29 AprI took my first trip to my father’s homeland this week. It was an amazing journey, filled with tons of family stories unlike any I’d heard before. During my trip, I ran across this quote from Gabriel Garcia Marquez at the Centro Leon in Santiago, Dominican Republic. It kind of summed up how I felt about what I was hearing.
Yo nací y crecí en el Caribe. Lo conozco país por país, isla por isla, y tal vez de allí proviene mi frustración de que nunca se me ha ocurrido nada ni he podido hacer nada que sea más asombroso que la realidad.
Quote of the Week
5 Apr“Same-sex couples should have the right to civil marriage. Our time on this Earth is limited, I know that better than most. Life comes down to who you love and who loves you back– government has no place in the middle.”
–Mark Kirk, (R) Illinois
Not Just Someone To Grow Old With
27 MarI married her because she’s my favorite person EVAH!! But, this “Golden Girls” scene is especially relevant today.
How to be the “Best Person Ever”
25 MarDeliver doughnuts to friends visiting NYC at their hotel room on a Monday morning. Annie Nazarian is the most thoughtful person ever (and she knew not to have hotel staff call up to the room too early).
I note this event because she and I celebrate a 20 year friendship this year and I’m the better for it.
(By way of explanation, they are doughnuts from Dough, and they are blood orange, dulce de leche, and poppyseed. The missing doughnut, by the way, was the blood orange one Annie rightfully kept for herself.)
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