August 26, 2019July 26, 2024 JMRL Blog “Life can be hard. I know how hard it can be. And then she said, ‘Déjate querer.’ Let yourself be loved.”
August 20, 2019July 26, 2024 JMRL Blog “That was my fight: to continue to do little things for people around me, so no one would find fault in my demeanor and misattribute it to my religion.”
July 23, 2019July 26, 2024 JMRL Blog “I wasn’t popular, but I wasn’t an outcast. I was everywhere with everybody, and at the same time I was all by myself.”
June 21, 2019July 26, 2024 JMRL Blog “Standing in the doorway of the newspaper’s office, he watched the streetcar continue on its eastward way, and he knew that if he lived to be a hundred, he would never be more in love than he was now.”
May 21, 2019 JMRL Blog “Anna smelled the bay, its oily piers. Clusters of seagulls hopped at the shore like white rabbits.”
May 7, 2019 JMRL Blog “Because a place can do many things against you, and if it’s your home or if it was your home at one time, you still love it.”
April 19, 2019 JMRL Blog “All were in sorrow, or had been, or soon would be. It was the nature of things”