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2012: Tú, only better The saying goes No dejes para mañana lo que puedes hacer hoy; but tomorrow always seems like a better day to get anything done. If you find that you avoid attending obligations promptly and give different excuses (like “I work better under pressure”, “I like things last minute”, “I just cannot find Read More
If you are Latino and have everattempted to diet, I can bet first thing you thought was: “I’ve got to cut down on rice and beans.” You probably realized a week into it how nearly impossible that is. However, you don’t need to beat yourself up over your rice and beans addiction – we’re all Read More
While I am having my own personal struggle with the timing for coming out to my parents, and explaining to them that I am in love with the most amazing woman that could ever exist, my girlfriend and I take a trip to Los Angeles to meet her parents who have, supposedly, accepted that she’s Read More
Everyone in the wonderful Latino spectrum is reminded in different ways of the fact that they’re Latino. Though these reminders come in different forms to everyone, they seem to come to some of us very often. In my case it happens almost daily because of my beautiful, thick accent. After eight long years in New Read More
2011 is gone. Slowly but surely 2012 pokes its head out and reminds us that a new year is a new opportunity. Although technically you can “start over” any day, the turn in the calendar seems to spark a desire to make changes in our lives. So we create what we call the New Year’s Read More
As I walked down an aisle of Ikea back in October, still worried about my Halloween costume, I saw to my surprised horror a line of perfectly priced and decorated Christmas trees. My Grinch-self woke up that minute and I remembered how much I hate Christmas (mostly because it tends to bring feelings of sadness Read More
After weeks of anxiously waiting, I finally got my acceptance package from Brooklyn College to enter as a second degree student. I excitedly read every bullet point on how to register, declare your major, get a school ID, until I got to the dreaded page: You must come to our Admissions office to “verify your Read More
As the dreadful holidays approach, I plan to buy a ticket to go visit my girlfriend’s parents in LA. I just realized that my parents (although I don’t live with them) are going to ask me where I am to spend Año Nuevo. And I am going to have to tell them. They don’t know Read More
It has been almost a month since the occupation of lower Manhattan started. The protest began on September 17, when a few hundred people gathered around Bowling Green waving their pieces of cardboard with slogans that, by now we’re all familiar with, like “We are the 99%” and “People over profit”. Since then, protesters have Read More