With our most recent drama there’s been many a conversation of late about courage with, well, just about everyone. For those that asked me my opinion I would tell them that I think courage isn’t about not feeling afraid, it’s about feeling afraid and doing it anyway. Fear is just meant to be a safety-check, …
The Things People Say
I don’t know if my husband knows it but when we first started dating he had competition, a very sweet friend of a friend. One night I picked up a phone call from the hospital, calling to see if I was free to come in and interpret in the Emergency Room. When I arrived it quickly …
A brief pause
Dear crônica readers, Minhas Crônicas do Brasil is on a medical leave of absence for the next week or two. On August 1 my husband donated a kidney to his brother. All are doing well and we seem to be leaving the hard days behind and are moving into the phase where each day everyone …
Holding On
We just wanted to see the fireworks and a police blockade stood in our way. The crowd broke through, and we ran. We ran like our lives depended on it because it did. When you’ve got no papers the boys in blue aren’t your friends. We just wanted to see the fireworks so I grabbed …
