FURY: Tales from the Rez
So….Fury was a horse. A horse from HELL! A gelding that fooled me into thinking he would be a placid ride. Black as midnight, and…
Pennies. From the Notebook Files of Gloria Esquerra
Shiny pennies. Grimy pennies. Untold secrets. A treasure, a curse, A Rolls, or a hearse? A coppery lie, Pass them by. Pass them by. Granny always…
Literature Unit and Poetry: Number the Stars by Lois Lowry
Literature Unit and Poetry: Number the Stars by Lois Lowry Published March 21, 2016 | By Gloria G. Esquerra Some of my favorite literature units centered on historical novels.…
PHANTOM HORSES
A long time ago, on a reservation 5 hours from Tucson, if you go by way of Gila Bend, nobody had air conditioners.…
THE BLACK RIBBON
There’s a stretch of road that winds through the Arizona desert. It’s a lonely two-way road. The traffic is sparse, the asphalt unusually black.…
PASS ME BY, STAY WITH ME
You know I was going to write about a phantom grocery cart dumper that is terrorizing our neighborhood…..well, really, my front yard (twice hit), but I was…
Grandfather
My most vivid childhood memory of my grandfather is of him sitting in the sun next to my aunt’s house (a barrack left over from the Japanese…
THE BRAHMA BULL
It was summertime when the Brahma bull came to terrorize us. My dad was an old time cowboy, calf roped in a…
DEPRESSION
Depression. It’s a dark rolling cloud that creeps over a person, eventually consuming the individual to the point of despair, dragging them into a darkness…