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      • Jul 15
      • 2 min

      Call Me a Cat Person (Really!)

      By the way, most cats don’t have last names, but our Sesame does, and it’s Cat, just like me!

      • Jul 3
      • 7 min

      I Thought Finland Was Home, but My Heart Said No

      “When was the last time you saw a Finn on the television for doing something big?”. My answer was “never”.

      • Jun 28
      • 10 min

      What It Means to Be a Black, Indigenous, Latino

      There is nothing more fragile in this world than a fragile White man—and that is, tragically, most of them.

      • May 28
      • 12 min

      Home is Wherever I Am

      It became clear to me that home was not something permanent, no matter how desperately I wanted that to be true.

      • May 18
      • 4 min

      Embrace the ‘ands’

      How would I be able to juggle these different identities—graduate student, writer, and Puerto Rican— without one infringing upon the other?

      • May 14
      • 32 min

      Love in a Pandemic—the Scientist and the Serviceman

      In a million years, I could have never guessed that a career military man would be a match for me.

      • May 10
      • 5 min

      Chickens Are Keeping Me Sane

      I put one dozen eggs in my cart and again wondered if I was staring down the barrel of a desolate eggless future. I needed a solution.

      • Apr 23
      • 5 min

      Bits of Bliss?

      Seemingly out of nowhere, my mind started to wander while I continued playing and it somehow brought me back around to my work.

      • Apr 16
      • 6 min

      Avevo Appena Fatto Ritorno a Casa Quando il Mio Paese fu Messo in Isolamento

      Passavo da una notizia all'altra, da un'app all'altra, in un circolo vizioso e inarrestabile.

      • Apr 14
      • 6 min

      I Just Came Back Home When My Country Was Placed on Lockdown

      I shifted from one news to another, from one app to another in an unstoppable vicious circle.

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