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About xaviertrevino

I like to write, take things apart and put them back together. Also our cat Snookie, turtles, and my lovely wife Danusia.

You Lost Me At Sauna

Posted on April 19, 2013 by xaviertrevino

When I first started dating my lovely wife Danusia, she asked me one day to accompany her to the Russian Baths on East 10th Street in the East Village for a unisex steam bathing session. I didn’t know there was … Continue reading →

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Welcome To the Moment

Posted on April 17, 2013 by xaviertrevino

All I’ve got is right now and it will be over in a second. When I was a child, I never worried about what was going to happen next. At least, that’s the way I remember it. I think I … Continue reading →

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Sitting Here In Limbo

Posted on April 15, 2013 by xaviertrevino

A little over two weeks ago I was suspended from my job as a handyman on the Upper West side. The building super, my immediate supervisor told me he was unsatisfied with my work performance, and sent me home. “You have to … Continue reading →

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Growing Problem

Posted on April 12, 2013 by xaviertrevino

Ten years ago, when I turned forty-eight, I went to see a urologist in order to get a prescription for Viagra. I had just started dating a woman, the second one after my divorce in 2000, and I realized that sex had … Continue reading →

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The Heel Spur

Posted on April 10, 2013 by xaviertrevino

I’ve known I had a heel spur for some time now, probably four years or so. And of course, like a typical man, I did nothing about it until it just about crippled me. I knew the options, an operation … Continue reading →

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Turtle Lady

Posted on April 9, 2013 by xaviertrevino

My Eastern Box Turtle Tia, died the weekend before last. I have no idea how old she was, but I’d had her for twenty four or so years. Tia is short for “Tortilla“, which is what my then two-year old … Continue reading →

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Scatty Catty

Posted on April 7, 2013 by xaviertrevino

The cat sniffed the edge of the pooper-scooper with the delicacy of a sommelier, and satisfied, made the cat-grimace cats make when they smell something pleasurable. The first time I ever saw that was when a friends cat spent some … Continue reading →

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Tomatoes

Posted on April 4, 2013 by xaviertrevino

My wife wrote a play, a one woman autobiographical show she was going to call TOMATOES, but ended up calling it WONDERBREAD instead. It was a fun show. She was going to call it Tomatoes because as a child her … Continue reading →

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I bought a book today part II

Posted on February 26, 2013 by xaviertrevino

The book I bought today was Frederick Exley’s A Fan’s Notes. $16 plus tax at Barns and Noble on 17th Street. I read this book before, when I was in college. That copy I found someplace, probably in the Pratt Dorm’s laundry … Continue reading →

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I bought a book today

Posted on February 26, 2013 by xaviertrevino

I bought a book today, and better yet I started to read it. Since I write, I try to avoid reading books because I’m like a sponge and I start writing like whomever it is I’m currently reading. I hadn’t … Continue reading →

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