World AIDS Day

The news travelled quickly through my family: our uncle Antonio has died. He was either 94 or 96, depending on who you ask. By virtue of age, he was probably the patriarch of the Flores family, my relatives in El Paso  [more...]

She was one of those supporting actresses that I love, the ones whose names I remember. Wendie Jo Sperber died on Tuesday after an eight-year battle with breast cancer. I first saw her — like many people —  [more...]

I must have caught it on the plane — this cold or plague or bird flu that has me in its grip right now; my house is knee-deep in used tissues and frankly it is all very disgusting and gross. I haven’t been  [more...]