Struggle

Research has shown that a college grad will generate a yearly income that is $30,000 more than a high school grad. That means when people like me enter the work force without a degree behind them, things can be a bit bleak. We are talking 17 years ago now, but when I first left my…

Lemon

Close to a decade ago, I needed to find a car ASAP. I had been dating a loser who did not have a car (among a list of other things wrong with him), and had run the car I had to the ground. So we started looking online for very cheap cars, and came across…

Mistake

We see the signs everywhere now…”DUI, You can’t afford it”. What most people probably take from that is the astronomical costs for a lawyer, fines, fees, and any number of other costs that can come into play. But what really has to be thought of is that it could cost someone’s life, or even sadder,…

Adulting (4)

Warning: Contains content not suitable for all ages or readers. When baby boy was 5 months old, we made the decision to drive cross country to live with my middle sister in Arizona. She had made the trip a few months earlier, had grabbed a two bedroom apartment already, and said we could come out…

Unfocused (3)

Warning: Contains content not suitable for all ages or readers. The new life in college was not what I was expecting. I wasn’t a fan of my roommate, and I had chosen the “boring” upperclassman dorm, without realizing it. It seems I made every possible wrong decision after that, too. I went in doing my…

Lessons (2)

Warning: Contains content not suitable for all ages or readers. After my middle sister and I left my mom’s, it wasn’t to live with my grandmother as I initially thought. Instead it was to live with my Aunt…and I don’t think we were with her for 3 months before she was mad enough to say…

Rough (1)

Warning: Contains content not suitable for all ages or readers. I was born in 1981, to a Mexican father and an Italian mother, in Hollister, CA. They met in Utah while on some sort of Job Corps assignment, before moving into a small trailer in California when I was born. My earliest memory though, is…