Chicana on the Edge

By the way, my frequent Yorkshire commentator, White Rose Boy, has launched a blog called World of Mick on which he posts quite frequently for a guy who was reluctant to start one.

This hostessing job just isn't feeling like the best fit. I've got the basics down, but there are apparently endless levels of expertise I could try to learn that don't really feel worth the $9/hour plus tips I'm earning. It's been a while since I had a job this...

I have a confession to make. After dating hundreds of men over the course of my spinsterhood, after too many first dates to count, after believing my heart must not function like everyone else's and, most significantly, after the epiphany of January 3rd that showed me...

I am proud to be a spinster. Anyone who reads the word "spinster" on my blog and sees it as pejorative is reading their own negative meaning into it. I use the word "spinster" the same way I use the word "bachelor." Here is the official definition: spinster - an...

© Regina Rodríguez 2004Tía Veronica sits in wedding lace inherited from abuelita.All the dreams of family are sewn into it.But as she feels the lace against her faceshe sees into her mother's life.All the pain, endless drain,a lonely angry wife.And she says,Chorus:I...

One Saturday night a couple of years ago (whenever Open Water was released, anybody know?) I decided to go to the movies. Now I’ve been a spinster for a long time, so I’m used to dining alone, going to movies alone, seeing shows alone, etc. and I have no problem with...

Hey, Obesio: what happened to your blog?

What turned it around:1. On Saturday night a friend talked to me extensively about my job situation. During a half hour conversation, we were able to identify that ever since I started working at Carson’s, I have always seen the hostess job as the hardest job in the...

Each morning the servers, the sous chef and the bartender come by the hostess stand and look at the reservation sheet. When it doesn't look very full, they express disappointment. Much more than at either of my previous jobs, everyone at the Grillroom seems to...

Okay, so at the end of last week, my second week on the job as hostess (cupcake) of the Grillroom, I felt an increased level of confidence and knowledge of the tasks. I felt far from 100% mastery (or even 75%), but I felt like I was definitely improving. Then the...

My 21-year-old University of California at Berkeley sweatshirt has finally died. I'd been wearing it to the gym every day so now I need to replace it. If I'm going to wear it every day I'd like to have something meaningful on it. Any suggestions of where I should shop...

Tonight as I rode home on the train at around 9:00 p.m, I was reading a story in which the author says she woke up each morning to the smell of the cooking fire. I thought, "I can smell that fire, too." I looked up and saw that three black kids, maybe middle school...