Big Mexican Dinner

Phoenix Poetry…

About a year ago I was taking a literature class with the University of Phoenix. It was total horse shit. One of my assignments was to write a free verse poem about who I am. Under the influence of Maker’s Mark and the Country music supergroup, The Highwaymen, I wrote this terrible piece of blasphemy. “I […]

AC 11 years agoMay 12, 2013

General

Why Your Opinion on the Gay Marriage Issue is Stupid

In the interest of full disclosure, I want to make it very clear that I am getting married in less than two months. I can legally do that in the State of Tennessee on the same day that I apply for a marriage license. An ordained minister who I have never met will perform the […]

AC 12 years agoNovember 6, 2014

Family General History Lies I tell

Wet Cement…

Today I saw workers pouring cement. I wanted to walk through it, but I didn’t… Take a look at this map. When I was five-years old I lived here (the house marked with the red circle and arrow): My family moved into this neighborhood in the late summer of 1980. I had celebrated my 5th […]

AC 14 years agoAugust 27, 2010

Family Foreign Language Lies I tell Music Stories

Dos Coronas a Mi Madre…

Today would have been my grandmother’s 83rd birthday. She passed away on April 4th of this year (Easter). This is the obituary that was published by the funeral home in San Antonio. Margarita P. Galindo passed into her Lord’s hands on April 4, 2010 at the age of 82 years. She was preceded in death […]

AC 14 years agoApril 3, 2011

Friends Stories

Orange Lilies…

Isn’t it strange how memory works? Certain sights, sounds, and smells (so, I’ve been told) can bring to mind things that never would have crossed someone’s mind in the course of a normal day. One of my memory triggers is seeing orange lilies growing along the side of a road. Every time I pass […]

AC 15 years agoJune 12, 2011

Family History Stories

Throwing Things…

When I was about 11 years old, I used to hang out with a bunch of kids at a decrepit playground close to where we all lived on Fort Eustis, Virginia. The park was secluded in a grove of old trees, so there was always a dense layer of leaves and fallen branches on the […]

AC 15 years agoMay 12, 2009

News of the Weird

As If We Really Need A Reason…

The “fair and balanced” journalists at Foxnews.com are reporting on a new study that links frequent masturbation to a decrease in risk of prostate cancer. The article at Fox News can be found here. Interestingly enough, Fox News is only quoting an article from a Gay and Lesbian Website (I’m not really sure why the […]

AC 16 years agoJuly 30, 2008