A Path with Heart: Corpse flower
Flowers are supposed to smell delicious, but not The Corpse Flower. When it decomposes, the odour keeps flies and beetles away. But it didn’t keep me away.
Author Archives: Araceli Martinez Ortega
A Path with Heart: Corpse flower
Flowers are supposed to smell delicious, but not The Corpse Flower. When it decomposes, the odour keeps flies and beetles away. But it didn’t keep me away.
A path with heart: Passionate defense
I do not know if lawyer Foong will be able to save the three Mexican brothers, but I am sure he and his team of lawyers will do all that is humanly possible to save these men from death by hanging.
A Path with Heart: The woman in black
Over and over again, the woman pressed her veil to the bridge of her nose as if she was afraid that it would slip and reveal her face. She was covered from head to toe in a black fabric. Her brown eyes were the only visible thing about her, and they were extremely beautiful: brown, big and with curly eyelashes.
A Path with Heart: The amazing things about Singapore
I recently traveled to Singapore. Here are 17 things that amazed me about it.
A Path with Heart: Secure Communities, Deeply Rotten
How many Perlas are out there? How many innocents have slept in jail because ICE’s database is backlogged? How many years back does the backlog go? How many people have been deported in error? Who audits ICE?
A Path with Heart: A Tsunami that Never Arrived
The powerful earthquake and tsunami that struck Japan made me remember the tsunami alert that mobilized Mazatlán when I was a child.
A Path with Heart: A Real Treasure
For children and students, libraries complement their education. For adults, libraries are an opportunity for life-long learning. I know that California is in financial trouble, but for many people public libraries are the only path to self improvement.
A Path with Heart: Attack Against Journalist is no Surprise
The front of my house was spray-painted with insults. At the radio station where I worked, for weeks I received stuffed animals or flowers along with cards full of insults. For months, people called the radio station on a daily basis and left me insulting messages.
A Path with Heart: Not One Crooked Tooth
The men stopped the car about five kilometers from the highway. They told my friend that they would forgive him for trying to run away. They stole his new truck, his cell phone, his documents and they took 2,000 pesos (160-165 dollars) that my friend had in his wallet. Then, believe or not, the robbers gave the doctor 500 pesos (40 dollars) so he could catch a bus home.
A Path with Heart: The Huge Man
I consider calling the flight attendant to complain. Hey, why do you let this man pay for only one seat? He is taking up half of my own seat.
A Path with Heart: Bus Robbery
Two or three hours before arriving at Guadalajara, a patrol car stopped the bus. My 72-year mother, who was sitting up front, quickly realized that the two police officers were impostors.
A Path with Heart: A Great Daughter
In Mexico, nursing homes are humble and frugal dwellings. Only the poor and childless live in them. In Mexico, most families take care of their elders until they die. Placing a parent in a senior home is almost unheard of.
A Path with Heart: Why Whitman Lost (the Latino Vote)
Whitman’s treatment of Nicky revealed that she and her expensive advisors don’t understand the Latino community. Whitman refused to accept that immigration was as important to Latinos as the economy.
