Category: Seattle

I remember the day I was told I was coming to “America.” Being a gullible and imaginative kid in Mexico, everything I heard about el norte just seemed magical like Disneyland. At one point, I really thought ice cream fell from the sky and I wrote about it here. Now that I’m all grown up Read More …

For those of you on LinkedIn, you know that it is a professional site to professionally engage and connect with other professionals professionally. If you don’t and instead choose to fall out of the rules and expectations of said website, someone like me may publish such behavior. Especially if such behavior caused you to hit Read More …

I grew up without health insurance for most of my 28 years of life. That means that I literally walked illnesses off and was probably responsible for getting other students sick at school. I did not know this at the time, but being the optimist that I am, I’m pretty sure I boosted/diversified their defense Read More …

Some people in this life spend a lot of time and effort trying to differentiate themselves from the rest. I was blessed and fortunate to inherit a beautiful and complex Latin American heritage, culture, life, family and story that has made it easy to be different in the US. It has colored and shaped my Read More …

I’ve always wanted to go to Canada and given that I live just outside of Seattle, that puts me at about 2.5-3 hours from the Canadian border. I don’t know where the American/Canadian beef stems from, but I hear the jibber-jabber every now and  then. I don’t really consider the beef between the two countries Read More …