Floating in the Ocean
In my teen years I spent all my summers in my home country Portugal. From the first day of school in September I would dream of being at my grandparent’s country home/farm and how it always made me feel at [...]
Enough!
Most of the time when I get a writing idea it gets dismissed because I find it goes no where or that it was just a flash of a possibility and then there are those times when the idea is [...]
3 Foods I simply Cannot Live Without
Since food has taken over my life in every aspect, I thought I would share 3 dishes/foods that I salivate, cherish, dream and would simply giggle with joy knowing that I was about to eat. This isn’t an entry about [...]
Sometimes a Dream is Your Destiny
I’m about to turn 50. Ok, I’ll be 50 in 5 months and the crazy thing is I find myself recounting really young memories. I will remember very precise moments of my youth and I realize something about myself. I’m [...]
Justin is no Pierre
If you are man today and over the age of forty, you were definitely raised in the generation where you heard the line at some point in your life, “You are just like your father.” When I arrived with my [...]
Five Songs That Influenced Me Growing Up
I have recently found music again. I used to be a singer and I even went to school to train as a singer. Though if you asked my children, they would role their eyes. I grew up in a very [...]
The Day I Decided to Kill My Parents
I was twelve or thirteen when I found out I was writer. I started writing short stories to help me escape from my reality. I unfortunately had very low self esteem and didn’t keep any of the stories. I remember [...]
The Bond Between Siblings- written by Nathaniel Burguete
Believe it or not, today was international siblings day. Yes, there's a day for siblings too. When I think of the special relationship between siblings, of course I think of my three older siblings, my brother Shadow and my two [...]
Pune
I struggled to find the words to describe what Pune has done to me. I was so focused on Hema and looking at the city through her eyes, that I didn't realize how Pune effected me personally. One of the [...]
The Warriors of Pune
To say Hema was excited about going back to Pune could be my biggest understatement. When we started planning our India trip our biggest dilemma was, what part of India should we visit this time. For me, it was easy. [...]