The Day I Learned I Was Nobody
And it was the most liberating feeling ever experienced. I learned young that self-examination is one of the hardest things humans can do. It takes a lot of effort to recognize and accept our faults.
Read full storyThe Day I Thought My Grandma Was Possessed
And all her friends as well. The worst years of my childhood were when my parents — going through a horrible divorce — placed me with my grandma until the heat came down and it was safe to return home. It took 2 and a half years!
Read full storyThe Loneliest Bee
That would do anything to find a friend. She worked hard all day to make honey for the hive. She went back and forth, ensuring her loads were at maximum proficiency. Yet, none of the other bees cared whether she existed or not. She was invisible.
Read full storyHoudini, the Cat Who Would Never Lose an Argument
Worse, he kept on beating me fair and square. Houdini thinks I’m a fool for spending all that money on kittens’ wall structures when all she needed was the curtains to climb up to the ceiling.
Read full storyDogs Truly Are Our Guardian Angels
My dog is driving me crazy. He thinks he’s the boss, no questions asked. God forbid he doesn’t get a bite just like I do. I swear he can count. Two bites for me? He demands the same for him or he throws a tantrum.
Read full storyThe Trouble With PTSD...and How I'm Conquering It.
I didn’t think I was affected by it. I thought I was too strong to allow it to get me down. I believed, foolishly, that only soldiers who saw battle or civilians who experienced psychosis were the only ones who would get it. Not me.
Read full storyThe Current Invasion of Migrants at the Southern Border
As the word spreads, some of the gates are fully open, and the situation could get much more dire. That would be nice in a perfect world. We’re having issues at the Southern Border. Pointing fingers and assigning blame will never fix the problem.
Read full storyOpinion: The Fast Car vs. the Old Lady: A Tale of Two People
A young man stopped his car inches from this old lady and honking like his life depended on it, berated her for taking too long to cross the road, scaring the poor woman to death.
Read full storyTraveling all over. My Short Bio for Whatever is Worth
A WIP with a lot of work to be done. (A caricature) 1. I'm Rene. This is the first time I ever wrote a bio. 🤔 Italo-Argentine and never lost the accent, some say it's better that I haven't.
Read full storyThe Incredible Life Of Ernest Hemingway
What would you do if meeting Picasso, Renoir, Joan Miro, T.S. Elliot, Mattise and Monet is not enough to appease your excitement?. Since not much happened in Kansas, you thought a better idea would be to go where the action is. At that time, that would be WWI. So, brimming with excitement you volunteered to join the army.
Read full storyAmsterdam or Bust
Landing in freezing cold Luxemburg wearing t-shirts wasn’t what you could call the smartest move ever, but that’s what we did. Being just 19 y/old globetrotters, we didn’t think of preparations of any kind. We just went with the flow. The flow was easy back to where we came from, Barbados. Everything was laid back and smooth sailing.
Read full storyThe Bullying Epidemic
The bullies at my Mechanical-Agriculture school in the countryside of Buenos Aires, Argentina, were tough, overly so with the newcomers. A magnificent semi-colonial building probably as old as the time of the Spanish occupation before independence. This was a rough mixed-crowd of city slickers from the capital, hard as-nails early risers from the deep country, and German-Saxon sons of immigrants from Hessen or Bavaria with impossibly long names to even attempt to remember.
Read full storyThe Fascinating Times We're Living in are a Phenomenon
I can't remember the last time I heard Trump saying his old slogan of "drain the swamp!". Why? Because if you ask me, the swamp was never drained, much to the contrary. If we look at the political situation today, we'll see the picture crystal clear. We have the same old two parties, proposing nothing new that will make your life, or mine, any better.
Read full storySo Long, and Thanks for all the Fish
I remember the times when I couldn't wait to turn on the news when I got home. Or News programs. They'd tell me what's happening in the world, and the tragedies of the R&F.
Read full storyThe Good, the Bad and The Beautiful
So, when I was a kid, I loved to write poetry. I was good at it. My friends praised me, my schoolmates praised me, and I praised them for praising me. My mom would love the written word and when it came to mine, she was blown away by it. All that made me feel great.
Read full storyWhen you Know, you Know
I didn't think I was affected by it. I thought I was too strong to allow it to get me down. I believed, foolishly, that only soldiers who saw battle or civilians who witnessed horrors were the only ones who would get it. Not me.
Read full storyCould the Tragedy of the Titan have been Prevented? (Opinion)
Stockton Rush wanted to make a fortune charging the rich for an adventure underseas that would cost — as it’s the case with this latest would-be expedition- $250K per person.
Read full storyObservations (Part 1)
I can’t help but notice all these young influencers taking over social media by storm. Anyone could go viral and suddenly become famous beyond her wildest dreams. All they needed was time and a laptop, or a desktop, or maybe just a cellphone.
Read full storyThe Alien Who Came to Dinner
The Alien sat at the table with us waiting for dinner. It doesn’t matter how many light years away you come from, you don’t say no to an Italian recipe cooked by an Italian mamma.
Read full storyMy Experience with Magic Mushrooms
Maybe micro-dosing is the sweet spot. The night before our expedition to the mountains of Merida in Venezuela, it rained profusely. Not only that, it was also a full moon. One of those you don’t forget easily.
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