Tag Archives: Life

HOMECOMING

Posted on October 10, 2016 by xaviertrevino

Last week I went back to the Pratt Institute campus for the first time in a few years. After losing the job I had there in 1977 I didn’t go back until a couple of years ago, in 2013 to … Continue reading →

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SENDING PAPA HOME

Posted on October 25, 2014 by xaviertrevino

Before my father died in a nursing home five years ago he would tell me he’d been in Mexico the day before, or the week before, or sometime in the recent past, despite the fact he hadn’t been anywhere but … Continue reading →

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Another Friday

Posted on November 23, 2013 by xaviertrevino

I remember vividly that it was a Friday, because we were in the auditorium of P.S. 270 on Emerson Pl. in Bedford-Stuyvesant watching cartoons and serials the way we did every Friday. I was nine on November 22, 1963. It … Continue reading →

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Early To Rise

Posted on May 8, 2013 by xaviertrevino

It’s raining- I can hear the occasional car’s tires on the wet pavement of Broadway down below, and in the bathroom I can hear it pinging off the vent covers on the roof, since we live on the top floor. … 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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