Our faces, our hair and skin read like maps of where we have come from, what distant lands brought us here. My paternal grandfather, an Englishman, ventured to America as a teen in 1804. Going to the southwest, he met up with the rest of my family who came from Spain… Read full post »

Years ago, a young, pioneering soul created Cupcake.com. This was way before Netscape as we know it. The site was completely fake, including a fake interview with Mariah Carey which  the author informed the readers he had to take down.

If I'm not mistaken, though, that site also had a… Read full post »

A few  years ago,  as I toiled away at  an entry-level,  minimum wage jay-oh-bee - while I taught college on the side - the majority of my time was spent working with the unfiltered public. Specifically, I  worked in a museum tearing tickets, pointing  to where the bathr… Read full post »