The role of a big brother has changed over the years. If Norman Rockwell were painting his version of who a big brother is, he’d paint a young man and a small boy with bamboo fishing poles over their shoulders heading down to the creek to catch some dinner. They’re walking side by side down [...]
Published: January 24th, 2004My first concept of financial independence was being able to buy a 2 liter bottle of Coke and a big bag of Cool Ranch Doritos without having to borrow from my buddy. Picking out a dozen of my favorite donuts at the local bakery and paying cold, hard cash was a privilege known to few, [...]
Published: January 20th, 2004If we had seen it coming it would have been a different story. It was swift. It was coordinated. It was driven by hate and prejudice and racism. To them* we were skin heads. We were hooligans, as they say even in Portuguese.
The name calling was nothing new to us. We get it everywhere we [...]
