Today I did something crazy. I left my house, walked to the Filipino corner store, and walked out with a thing of ice cream. Not just any ice cream. The kind I got was corn and cheese ice cream. Yes. Filipino corn and cheese ice cream. And I didn’t even look scared. I put the [...]
The other day Debbie called to ask if she could come and spend the night. Debbie’s a woman I met a little over a year ago when I was writing about Victoria Avenue barbershops. I did a photo-essay about her for school (“Debbie’s First of the Month” – I’ll put that up one day), and [...]
It’s summer time and it’s hot. Like, hot hot. Hot is all people can talk about. That and “Do you have A/C.” People joke about hell a lot and have visions of themselves dancing in slow-motion under popped fire hydrants. Nobody kisses hello or goodbye. We’re at my grandmother’s house, in the kitchen. Someone’s decided [...]