right now i am practicing frewwriting it is this exercise where im supposed to keep writing for as long as possible and just not think for a bit. i think it is working, the words are just kind of coming out and he told me to think of it like grit im basically jjut summarizing the artile i read that…

An e-mail went out asking for second and third generation Mexican Americans. A senior needed interviews and information for their senior thesis about how Mexican Americans from later generations (2nd+) engage with family stories and craft group identity narratives. Assimilation was also a focus…

It took me a while to really get into Inside the Criminal Mind; maybe it’s just me but I found the writing style to be a bit too dry. Once I got into the book I found it a very interesting view on the criminal mind and a useful one. There are points in the book where I feel the brushstrokes were too broad, however.

The sun shines differently and the wind rustles the trees differently in Southern California, in LA

Something about the palm trees something about the arboles del sol. The constant rustle, the source of which is the tallest palm tree.

rambling. in. prose. (about death)

you die and you are nothing but another statistic. you never accomplished enough to be remembered and anything you did or wanted to do stayed on your hard drive or your journals or notebooks or in your head or lost on the internet…