The hospital room was as cold as dead skin, the hallway crowded with lost souls and reeking of illness.

We aren’t encouraged to think for ourselves and ask questions. We are expected to accept what they teach us as infallible truths.

Being Latino means being from everywhere, and that is exactly what America is supposed to be about.

Foisting an identity on people rather than allowing them the freedom and space to create their own is shady.

Nobody, she felt, understood her-not her mother, not her father, not her sister or brother, none of the girls or boys at school, nadie - except her man.

To me, travel is more valuable than any stupid piece of bling money can buy

Globalization by the way of McDonald’s and KFC has captured the hearts, the minds, and from what I can see through the window, the growing bellies of the folks here.