Baldo by Hector D. Cantú and Carlos Castellanos for February 04, 2019

Oh, Sergio, you sly perro

Kids will believe anything they are told.

“Don’t sit too close to the TV; you’ll go blind.”

That’s just wrong

When I was a kid I thought my tias/os and abuelos/as were about 500 years old. I now realize they were around the age I am now.

I don’t remember my parents ever lying to me.

If I swallowed watermelon seeds it would grow in my stomach. I told my offspring the same thing, but by then I knew it wasn’t true.

When there is no chimney, Santa comes out of the TV. (large 1950s console TV).

Don’t know if they actually lied, but I certainly was led as medium age child when I would have heard of this, that their families did not loose anyone in the Holocaust. I now know that only one member of my maternal grandfather’s family who had not already come to the US (around 10 siblings plus parents, siblings spouses & children, aunts, uncles, cousins, etc.) were killed. Oh, and somehow that grandfather’s family, which I was told was in Russia, which I later learned was actually Poland by the time I came along and the farm we had heard his family had, was, now according to my 89 year old mother, was Austria and a tavern – or her mind has mixed this up now as I remember a photo of the family in front of the farm house when I was a child.