If we all had gotten our heads out of our collective overprivileged asses months ago, we might, just might be well on our to have widely managed this COVID-19 global-pandemic crisis in a much more efficient kind of way. A life-saving kind of way. Will we ever learn?
Tag: Peru
Notre-Dame Caught Fire and…
Notre-Dame de Paris caught fire last year, and you wanna know what my memory of that day is? Urgh, the old coot I used to enjoy helping at the grocery store where I used to work, until that day. Him, his blue hat, and his loud and misguided Made-in-the-USA Islamophobia. Old (Caucacious) Man Chad. A […]
Pandemic Peeps Día 93: Lu
Día 93: La pandemia del COVID-19 que nos tiene en casa por acá, por allá, partout desde marzo – con más y más incertidumbre en unos que en otros lugares – nos está retando. De una u otra manera, claro que sí. Crucemos los dedos porque las cosas se mejoren en Peru y en Brasil, […]
Pandemic Peeps-Día 86: Roxana Villanueva de Haro
Día 86: La pandemia del COVID-19 que nos tiene en casa por acá, por allá, partout desde marzo – con más y más incertidumbre en unos que en otros lugares – nos está retando. De una u otra manera, claro que sí. En Estados Unidos, los efectos y estragos del pecado original americano – 400 […]
Pandemic Peeps: Nick D’Annunzio
As the COVID-19 pandemic, caused by a novel and deadly coronavirus that spread out of China during the winter, has us on Month 3 of a generalized global shutdown, I thought I’d check in on some of the people I’ve met along the way, my community. I have lived in three cities across two countries […]
A #🌈SanFrancisco Playlist Postcard
The road to Eureka Sky is both a Postcard and a Playlist. It’s 🎧➡️Pandemonth the Third. Smoke responsibly. And wear sunscreen. And….
#ApoyemosJuntosPe
A group of mes amies franco-péruviennes from high school in Lima, Peru, and in Paris, France, is helping to manage #ApoyemosJuntosPe, an ongoing GoFundMe campaign to raise crucial funds for Peruvian hospitals in need of personal protective equipment (PPE) to fight COVID-19. To support the various Peruvian institutions pleading for PPE during this pandemic moment […]
Pandemic Peeps: Aurora Dominguez
As the COVID-19 pandemic, caused by a novel and deadly coronavirus that spread out of China during the winter, thrusts us well into Month 3 of a generalized global shutdown, I thought I’d check in on some of the people I’ve met along the way, my community. I’ve lived in three cities across two countries […]
The Thing About Bad Bunny
It was so good to see and hear Bad Bunny encourage the Class of 2020 this evening. Twenty-five years ago I would go to my French school every day, then, after class and stuff at home, I’d watch a ton of American TV. The same shows y’all probably watched back then. It helped me pick up […]
For the Kids
Don’t go getting any ideas about summer. How ever could we have known that spring season’s arrival was on notice 10 weeks and a day ago, when I started to reflect on what I would want to teach the kids – my nieces and nephews – about life, love, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. […]
