Our culture, our society, the media, our peers and basically everything that surrounds us in the day to day of our little lives teaches us that babies are a happy thing. Babies are a miraculous event we should all be grateful for and everything associated with this is meant to be positive. I’m not here …
Category: aftermath
My Labor Story (complete with Q & A)
I talked about it, I wrote about it, I griped about it. I feared for the day and lamented the day. I had anxiety everyday for the past two months over it and imagined the worst-case scenario with every article I read about it. Then finally, on April 30th, I lived through it. “It” being …
Crime, punishment … and justice?
If I write the name Daniel Zamudio, does it mean anything to you? What if I wrote Daniel Zamudio is equal to or as similar as Matthew Shepard? Do you even remember him? I have to admit that when I heard Matthew Shepard in comparison to the recent events surrounding Daniel Zamudio here in Chile, …
"All 33 of us are fine in the shelter."
I’m not the kind of person who is moved to tears easily. Unless I’m watching a cheesy commercial then of course, all bets are off and the waterworks begin. However, this story about the miners and how they were found to be alive after 17 days trapped 2,300 feet below ground, under the San Jose …
The Aftermath
We decided to go to Jumbo (one of the major grocery store chains in Chile) today and it was a madhouse … literally the lines extended farther than I had EVER seen them… note below: In his usual strategic/baller manner, G had the great idea to wait in the “15 items or less” line while …