Natalia Corres
I hear myself asking the meowing cat for "five more minutes" as I try to hold onto the thread of a dream that I am watching like a movie to get to the end and see what finally happens... a furry weight stands on my chest and reminds me that the five minutes are up and …
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I have a lot of stories to tell. And darn it, I keep thinking of new ones - sometimes faster than I can get the ones before them, written. So I wind up with several text files of bits and pieces of story ideas, or parts of conversations, or even phrases that inspire me to …
We play God the moment we accept the care of another living, sentient being. Their every moment, dependent upon our goodwill, our remembrance, our actions. Sometimes, they grow to a point where freedom is inevitable - a child becomes a teen becomes an adult - and they become their own God, navigating their way. And …
No matter how bleak the world may seem at any given moment, I know it can always get worse. No - it wasn't meant to be funny - but it WAS meant to remind myself (and you, if you are reading this) to be thankful right now for what you have right now. I had …
I belong to an online webapp called Nextdoor. It is designed to help people know their neighbors and neighborhoods in a world where there seems to be no time to sit and chat and get to know your neighbors over a nice cup of tea or coffee and learn about who they are. Sadly, this …
Where do your loyalties lie? In the present or in the future? That is what I was asked. And my answer, is always that our past flows into our future through the present. So my loyalties lie where I have some ability to influence, which is only ever NOW.
I used to be invisible because I was a small brown child. Then I was invisible because I was a girl. Soon after I was invisible because I was a woman. Now I am invisible because my hair is gray, and I am old. Being invisible has its advantages. When there is trouble I can …
I am able to fit in almost anywhere until the dreaded question of my roots. My last name sounds Hispanic, but I am not, nor am I Latina. I am Amerasian, with a surname the result of someone unable to spell my Father's last name when he joined the US Navy. But I am not …
I have entered in to the time of losses, Not the losses of youth - which normally is encompassed by material things, no, I and those I know are in the phase of life where we feel the losses of others, more keenly because we know that we are closing in on the end, ourselves. …
I rarely see myself, actually - never, in fiction, or in life. I see my qualities and those I aspire to, and some I wish I did not have, but I never see "me". I can identify with those who delightedly discover a version of themselves represented in a book, a play, a tv show, …
