April 22nd, 2022 April Ibarra
How will you celebrate your life this year? Fifty-eight years ago, my mother (Donna) took a cab to Mercy hospital because she was having a baby and walking wasn’t an option. No one in our family had a car which didn’t matter because she never learned to drive. Yellow cab to the rescue. When I […]
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April 16th, 2022 April Ibarra
“Your learn a lot about someone when you share a meal together.” Anthony Bourdain It was Friday night and I had an hour to transform myself from my day job to my next job. I fixed my makeup, sprayed up my hair and put on my uniform; black velvet shorts, suspenders, large silver hoops, boots […]
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April 8th, 2022 April Ibarra
“It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.” – E.E. Cummings The first time I knew I had become invisible was at a bar in Las Vegas. I was in town on business, wrapping up a convention and passing time before my red eye. Why I ever thought flying out at […]
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April 1st, 2022 April Ibarra
At eighteen I had no plan and this totally shocks me. How in the hell did I get to my high school graduation, class of 1982 with no plan? That’s just not like me. I don’t even remember what I was thinking that last year of high school. I imagine I was on auto pilot, […]
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