Tuesday, February 13th, 2007 7:00 am When I opened my eyes that morning, the first thing I looked at was a green, deluxe edition of One Hundred Years of Solitude…

On Monday, February 12th, 2007, I walked out of the box with only one objective in mind: I needed to look for a new job. I didn't know where I…

I think 2007 wasn't a bad year after all. I know I'd been fired, but there were other events (good and bad) that made the year interesting. Yes, even the…

Riding the bus was beginning to be one of those undesirable things I regularly did. Thankfully, because I was a student at Santa Barbara City College, I didn't have to…

It was a Saturday in November, at six in the afternoon, when I decided to ride a bicycle I'd bought from Lazaro, one of the friends I used to hang…

When I started going to school at Santa Barbara City College, I moved out of Saul's house. He'd come back from Mexico and needed his room, which was understandable, and…