The Latino Vote?

I couldn’t be more tired of hearing the term “Latino vote”. Who are these amorphous Latinos? Where did they come from? Just to be clear, here is a little something about my family background: My mother is an immigrant from Peru. She was educated in a convent school and came here when she was 18 to work as a nanny for a family in Marin County, CA. My father was born in Upland, CA, the …

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there’s a first time for everything

someone recently suggested to me that i should start a blog. i have to confess that i don’t read a lot of blogs so i don’t really get the rules here. i think ranting is generally involved, but i don’t feel much like ranting just now. i’m not sure why we are so interested in the mundane details of other’s lives…are we really so starved for voyeuristic entertainment that it is necessary to read about …

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