Elenamary

I wonder what future generations will think about the fact we ever even debated this.

I live very close to my “Neighborhood Pride Center“.   It is a pretty cool idea I think, to house community space, the police, university safety patrol and basic city services all in one place.  I’d like to make  a recommendation to the City and the University who are joint partners in sharing the space and [...]

Last night I was at one of my favorite hangouts, CaraBar, with my aunt (from my Mexican side), and my friends Tony from the Bahamas, and Jason.
My aunt doesn’t speak English and so I spent a good deal of the time doing simultaneous interpretation of our conversation. We talked about missing food from [...]

My very good friend, Miles Curtiss is running for University Area Commissioner.  Those living between High street to the train tracks, and from 5thAve to 16thAve, can vote for Miles Curtiss.  All you have to do is show up, this Saturday, with either your Buck-ID, or other photo ID, or mail at one of the [...]

In sixth grade I remember checking out books on Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor and wanting to be like her when I grew-up.  I figured I could be President first and then a Supreme Court Justice.  Some point during high school I came to believe that Presidents really didn’t have as much power as [...]

I first met Joseph (José) Mas in the early 2000’s when he came to speak to my Latino Studies class.  That quarter on a weekly basis different local Latino leaders came to speak to us.  I prejudged José Mas, thinking, “here comes this white Cuban lawyer who is going to be another anti-Castro, GOP mouth [...]