Category: Stories

• Lessons from the Front Stoop: On bearing anything just to play

  

  How the memory of a game of 7 Up informs my present

  sergiaflo123

  October 31, 2022

  Stories

  childhood, frontstoop, lifelessons, memories, nyc1970s, nycstreetgames, selfawareness, selflove

• At least…

  

  On support, permission, and freedom in partnership and singlehood

  sergiaflo123

  June 22, 2022

  Stories

  beingsingle, freedom, married, permission, Stories, support, supportivehusband

• Puente

  

  On immigrant mothers and their daughters, and the bridges we build

  sergiaflo123

  June 14, 2022

  Stories

  bilingual, bridge, daughters, firstgeneration, graduation, immigrant, mothers, puente, superpower

• My place

  

  On old friendships and my place in their hearts

  sergiaflo123

  November 15, 2021

  Poems, Stories

  beingsingle, findingmyplace, highschoolreunion, Stories, unmarried

• Thaw

  

  On saying what needs to be said

  sergiaflo123

  February 21, 2021

  Poems, Stories

  big love, need, silence, thaw

• Dawn

  

  An ode to flesh and bone and ordinary life

  sergiaflo123

  December 19, 2020

  Stories

  #grief, dawn, flesh and bone, holy, ordinary life, praying

• The Fall

  

  On the death of my heroic self

  sergiaflo123

  January 16, 2018

  Stories

  falling from grace, friendship, friendshipendings, personal hero

• Never forget

  

  On memories of kindness on September 11

  sergiaflo123

  September 12, 2017

  Stories

  9/11, grief, newyorkcity, nyc, september11, twintowers

• Baptism: I will sing, sing a new song

  

  On the U2 Joshua Tree 2017 concert, time travel, and letting go

  sergiaflo123

  July 12, 2017

  Stories

  concert, joshuatreetour, lettingo, memories, sinzpato, U2