By: Jason Howe The goddess Eos fell in love with a mortal, Tithonus. Desperate to stay with him forever, she implored Zeus to grant him the immortality of the gods – forgetting to also secure for him their eternal youth. Tithonus indeed lived forever, but grew so old and frail that out of pity Eos […]
By: Jason Howe Ding dong the witch is dead! What does it feel like to be like everyone else? Well, the crew from Telemundo just left. My mother is happily tearing up in the living room as her beloved CNN devotes wall-to-wall coverage to the Supreme Court’s death blow – or rather, its refusal […]
By: Jason Howe Sometimes the question pounces from the most unexpected directions. I was sitting in our daughters’ playpen, reading “The Very Hungry Caterpillar” for the third time that day. That’s when our nanny sprung it on me: “Are you the father and Adrián is the mother?” she asked. She’d worked for us for nearly a year […]
By Jason Howe An exploratory brush at the tip of my nose. Half-asleep, I’m barely aware and don’t respond. Once again, more insistent, it makes its way into the opening of my nostril. Still no response. Then it comes: not just an I’m-stopped-at-a-signal-and-I-don’t- think- anyone-is-looking scrape of the septum; not just a I’m-driving-on the-101-and-no-one-is-near-up-to-the-cuticle foray into the nostril; […]
