salinas te corazon (amo)
The police German shepherds first, camo, balaclavas, the whole state apparatus arranged in a darq and straggling rectangle like a photo op. The audience named without being present: cartels, mensajes […]
family
a blog about tomatoes? aren't they a nightshade?
The meaning of the universe is 42, and the placeholder answer, offered up while the real one loaded. Run the numbers on my life, though, carry the one across four decades of unpaid backyard labor, and what prints is tomatoes. […]
as always, he was
I did not accept the offer, of course. I accepted the premise. To run. To Colombia, or country X, with a her -- not that her, different her entirely. That is the inheritance nobody reads from the will […]
brown is actually the best color skin daddy says
There was a piece on NPR about how children pattern from their parents' examples in the absence of frank, uncomfortable conversations about race, the implication being that if you perform the right values loudly enough, the kid absorbs them by osmosis. So I asked her. […]
how helicopters work
So. Helicopters. The main rotor generates lift by spinning aerofoils through the air, creating a pressure differential between the upper and lower surfaces. The tilted rotor allows vectoring of lift for forward flight, and the tail rotor counteracts torque to prevent fuselage rotation. Collective pitch controls altitude while cyclic pitch controls attitude. ... and she […]
fitness tracker chore dump
We started a family step count game. The idea is simple: whoever wins the daily step count gets bragging rights. We keep a running tally of weekly victories. The weekly winner gets to assign the weekly loser a chore of their choice. I kitted each of us out with a Xiaomi Mi Fit 2. At […]