I held a glass marble in my hands. It was smooth in the blue and rough in the green. Swirls of white danced along the …
One Remarkable Marble
On Our Strange Relationship with Tragedy.
When, in April of 1986 near the Ukrainian city of Pripyat, the No. 4 nuclear reactor of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant shutdown, life and …
A Government’s Number One Policy Should be Serving Their People, Not Re-election
If we examine some of our governments’ greatest failures as governing bodies, we can trace their motivations to a focus on their image, appealing to …
Go Back to Where You Came From- Why Being Bilingual is Weird
People tend to ask me whether I think in English or in Spanish quite frequently, and having spoken (and heard) both since I was a …
Sorella Mia
Her father had been dying for seven years and a half. And now that he actually died, she was far from expecting it. She left …
Linguistic Loneliness
I am writing this and you will understand what it says. That is, of course, if you know how to speak and read English. I …
Fate vs Flux in The Modern World
Life is an odd meandering river of time, something that takes unexpected turns and twists and yet can also recoil back and return to the …
Thinking Beyond Dichotomies- The Toxic Nature of Limitation
Britney Spears shares a bit of wisdom at the beginning of her song “Circus” with her listening audience- there are two kinds of people, those …
Overpopulation Is An Environmental Issue. Why Aren’t We Talking About It As One?
Overpopulation can be a national and international issue. It simply means that a population has grown so large that it begins to suffer as a …
Barium Boron Yttrium
(BaBY) ‘Congratulations to the new parents. Can’t hardly wait to see the new arrival.’-Ernest Lawrence in a letter addressed to Enrico Fermi at Chicago University …