You shouldn’t want to be like everyone else. Then you wouldn’t be like you.

I wanted her to have the full, long life that every parent promises his or her child by the simple act of bringing that child into the world.

I took his razor from the shower floor, bits of his black hair still caked between the blades. I took his toothbrush from the sink counter and sucked on the bristles, trying to find the...

English was such a dense, tight language. So many hard letters, like miniature walls. Not open with vowels the way Spanish was. Our throats open, our mouths open, our hearts open. In English, the sounds...

Because a place can do many things against you, and if its your home or if it was your home at one time, you still love it. That’s how it works.