Author: Payazaro

When I was a young lad back in the camping days in good ol’ Washington, I never had a problem with mosquitoes. Maybe my blood was too spicy for them. Whatever the case, mosquitoes were never that annoying to me because I only went camping like once every twenty-some moons. In Manzanillo, however, mosquitoes make Read More …

Before I was born, my mother took extra vitamins of R-E-S-P-E-C-T. As a newborn, you could see the abundance of respect overflowing from my eyes. I was never that greedy baby trying to hoard any breasts in sight. If you were a girl I liked in elementary school, I never pulled your hair. Instead, I Read More …

For all my bilingual people out there, what is it about the brain that prefers one language over the other? Or is it just me? Spanish is my native language and I didn’t learn conversational English until I was 9. I still remember learning English by sounding the words out in Spanish. The vocabulary words Read More …

Everyone has a tick or a jitter when they’re stressed out. I used to think I was in control of mine, but it has become very obvious in the office. “Stop eating your face” they tell me. Say what? I have the bad habit of biting the inside of my cheek. In a weird way, Read More …

I remember the first time I was able to flex my boobs. Well, it’s technically the “pectoral muscles” but boobs sound better. I was taking a weight training class and my scrawny high school frame had grown enough boob muscle to flex on command. It was one of many events where I believed I had Read More …