Author: Rudy Martinez

  It’s easy to be cynical about sports. You look at rape-y punter in Buffalo and rape-y qbs that have peppered the AFC North (past and present) and it really…

    In 1992 I was 19 going on 20 and working a great union job that paid $18.83 an hour with a raise after 90 days to twenty-somethings. I…

    Jen was sitting there on the gym floor playing with her hair as the teacher took roll.Our classes were combined for tumbling so I walked over to my…

  I’m your stereotypical Gen-X, latch key kid, raised (mostly) in the 80s. That means my babysitter was usually a TV. Which is to say that, for me, movies have…

  I was 28 days from my 19th birthday. It was September and I was working three jobs with no real sense of what to do next.  I only knew…

    When I was four or maybe five I lived across the street from a park in LA. I don’t remember much about it except that it had a…

  This is the story of my two abortions. The first time I paid for an abortion I was nineteen (I think). She was the friend of a friend and…

 I’ve had a few people “warn” me about France.  “They have the same issues we have and there are places that are just as racist as any place here.” Maybe. …