Each Time We Fall
I thought my father was sending me off to the city with my uncle to study. I didn’t fully grasp that I was sold until I was about 15 years..
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- Dec 7, 2020
- 9 min
Virtue Above All Else
With a straight face my mother replied, “It would have been better if you had let me die.”
- May 7, 2020
- 7 min
A Matter of Life and Death and Limb
I’m an athlete through and through, model year 1983...I was someone always in motion... But what happens when that motion is tested...
- Mar 25, 2020
- 8 min
Even When the Waves Crash, the Mountain Stands
When looking back at those days, I marvel at how far I have come. Maybe it was luck. Maybe it was desperation. Maybe I will never find out..
- Dec 21, 2019
- 9 min
Stronger Than the Tiger
Our village was surrounded by the forest on all sides, but those were not forests children could play in, because there were tigers...
- Oct 18, 2019
- 7 min
A Desert Rat’s Tale of Survival
I was born into what became a large family of eleven children. As I was one of the oldest, I had new siblings on an almost yearly basis...
- Oct 11, 2019
- 8 min
Fighting Free
Maybe it would have been a lot different if life had stayed peaceful and carefree like when I first came into this world...
- Oct 9, 2019
- 7 min
Memories of a Minesweeper
I can still remember the smell of the city streets before there were cars. Trams and horse-drawn carts trundled past...
- Sep 12, 2019
- 5 min
A Deep Breath
That’s when she married my stepfather who served in the US Military. Because of his job, we moved to the US...
- Sep 9, 2019
- 7 min
To Begin in New Delhi
Unfortunately, the north also houses some of the poorest and least privileged of the country. Labor can be as easily bought and sold...
- Aug 28, 2019
- 8 min
I Love This Life Because You Are in It
They say that daughters are a blessing, but that was not my reality. You see...for years, I blamed myself for my mother’s death...
- Aug 17, 2019
- 8 min
A Long Walk from Yesterday
In fact, I was 16th in the rankings, including my father’s children from his two older wives, who each had six children before...
- Aug 15, 2019
- 9 min
The Sound of Hope
That year, there was a massacre in an eastern village. Nearly 600 were killed with sprays of bullets and machetes...
- Jul 10, 2019
- 8 min
It’s All in the Numbers
I was the son of a working mom from the Midwest and a devoted dad that had immigrated to the US from Mexico at an early age...
- Jul 8, 2019
- 7 min
When You’re Determined
We were not rich, but we lived a happy and comfortable life. I saw the world through their eyes and everything seemed wonderfully...
- May 24, 2019
- 7 min
The Lamb Was Sure to Go
I once met a woman named Mary, and Mary was quite contrary. She loved planting and making things grow. We met in LA, and ever since...
- Apr 8, 2019
- 8 min
The Great Escape
I do not want to drag you into historical facts. I want to tell you about the adventures of a boy who cheated death.
So, let me take you...
- Mar 22, 2019
- 7 min
As I Looked into the Eyes of My True Love
I did not come into a perfectly happy world upon my birth in 1883. My mother had always blamed my father for disappearing into his dirty...
- Jan 7, 2019
- 7 min
My Life Is Not a Tragedy
The sun flowing through the crack of the window was not able to warm up the icy cold that was invading me at every thought of my future...
- Dec 8, 2018
- 7 min
Tilling a New Path
My mother took the highway and never looked back, not even at me! My father was left to care for me alone and since he lacked childcare...
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