Boston
The waiting room at the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) Center for Pediatric Hematology and Oncology (Pedi-Hemonc) hasn’t changed much in the past seventeen years. The same poster depicting an underwater [...]
Tomorrow Will be Nothing Like Today
I left the United States on June 13th, just over five months ago. As I walked down the gate, leaving New York’s JFK airport (and with it, the United States [...]
30 Minutes
I feel like I was spoiled in college. It seems like every race this season, I've woken up well before dawn. And that's no different today. I wake up at [...]
Vale La Pena
(Worth the Effort) I’m up before 5am and, groggy-eyed, I’m jolted out of my sleep at the sight of a giant tarantula on the bathroom floor. Despite having no conscious [...]
Travel: On the Road to Trujillo, Peru
Just after 3pm, I leave my apartment in Quito’s southern neighborhood, La Marin, and walk up to the Ecovia – the bright red trolley-bus that runs along the North-South corridor [...]
The Beginning of the End
Graduating from college was anti-climactic. While graduation signified an enormous turning point in my life, most students know that the day itself comes a few weeks late. I remember countless [...]
Five Minutes
This is making me feel old. It must have been at least a decade ago, maybe 15 years, that my brother, my cousins, and I began the tradition which would [...]
Quitting
Before we begin - a short plug for our Fall Fundraiser. For those who don't know, we at STRIVE are developing a community center (creatively dubbed, The Center) to offer [...]
La Gran Colombia – Part II: La Maraton
This post will be the second in a series describing my brief trip to Colombia to compete as an invited elite athlete in the Media Maratón de Flores in Medellín, [...]
Running for Another
On Sunday, I finished 4th in the Ibarra Regional Championship 10km road race and – for the first time – accepted prize money as a professional athlete. I’d actually won [...]