It was five in the morning on a Saturday when my mother started having her contractions. It was March 30th of 1991 and my father rushed my mother to the hospital, in the desperate outset of that event he forgets the already-packed bag of the baby. At the hospital there is no doctor on duty and a nurse made a…

By Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Without discrediting the merits of the other themes, in this novel and in most of Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s work, history is a central theme and even more so in The Autumn of the Patriarch. For the autor…

It’s was a Sunday night of January, when I wrote this. With forty-eight degrees outside, It was a warm night for a winter. That…

A little too quiet, very curious, but a healthy — joyful kid. Peter–Peeter, Pheter, or Edwinsito; depending who in the family called his name–was the child of a single mother. A single mother by chance, not by choice; for Peter’s father was always present, although he only knew…

Life As a Kid

Rarely got in trouble. Grew up in the late ‘90s early ‘00s. Fall in love with music. Started to realize I liked anything in the radio. Hated music. 2005 Reggaeton took off. I fall in love with music again. I studied old music…