mexican-american

  • gente primitiva

    gente primitiva

    My favorite painting in the world is at the National Museum of Mexican Art in Chicago. Don’t ask me how a Mexican national museum can be in Chicago without expecting a lecture in return – and I’ll expect you to take notes. The paining is called gente primitiva by Carlos Almaraz. It’s brushy with thick

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  • Big Sur 

    Big Sur 

    An essay I wrote about a road trip I took in 2022. I was laid off from what my friends lovingly and I hatefully called “my fake email job” on January 14th, 2022. At first, as cajoled by all of my friends, I tried to rest. I turned off the alarm on my phone, drank

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  • A Body At All

    A Body At All

    A previously unpublished essay about how I found running – it feels a bit dated reading over it again now, so I figured I’d might as well publish it here. I think that people assume that I like running because it doesn’t hurt when I do it. They’re wrong – it almost always hurts. Sometimes

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