jesse tenorio

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  • My mom gave me The Phantom of the Opera

    when I was ten years old. She sat me in a rocking chair at age ten with a blanket in my lap and a BIG headphone set.  She plopped a big black book containing The Phantom of the Opera libretto onto my lap, and played the entire show on 2 cassettes, front and back, stopping Read more

  • I’ve covered some heavy territory…

    …in recent posts, so I’ve got some random rambling and blather today that’s not so existential and dramatic. Feel free to skip. Here’s 5 things on my brain tonight 1) Flowers by Miley Cyrus is severely over played on the radio, right? I don’t know why I still listen to the radio, but I do. Read more

  • As I approach my wedding

    I find myself in a strange conundrum. I am not broke. But would never be called the world’s greatest saver. But pretty soon my finances will be tangled with someone else’s and I have to confront this strange relationship to money that I’ve had since graduating from college…and that has only been exacerbated after recent Read more

  • Now, 3 days from 32

    I had an extremely upsetting dream last night that started my day pretty off-key, but I couldn’t quite recall the exact details. I am one of those people that often can’t remember my dreams until later on in the day, but I could feel the ominous nature of this dream, and I knew the key Read more

  • My blogging history is turning out to be

    …more cyclical than I anticipated. It began here in 2012 as a way for me to talk about my cancer experience 3 years post-treatment. At the time, I would’ve called myself a cancer survivorship blogger. I wrote about it exclusively, and I held myself to a relatively rigid posting-schedule. Eventually, that rigid schedule got to Read more

  • I’ve been square dancing around…

    >>>TW: Suicide, mental health struggles<<< …David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest since I was in college. I read one of his short stories in my Fiction workshop class my Junior year—a class that, for me, provided a WELCOME reprieve from the world of pirouettes, belting, and show tunes—and I remember my professor talking about him being Read more