by Hector De Leon | Feb 12, 2024 | Featured 2
A wrinkled fading black and white copy of Rafael Palafox’s Certificate of Naturalization shows he was 24-days short of his sixty-eighth birthday when he suddenly passed away. I found it in my mail basket. It was made to serve as “In Case of an Emergency”...
by Hector De Leon | Mar 11, 2021 | Featured 2
(José Raúl de León [García] at different stages of his life: “Pepe.”) “My Dad is the most talented man that I know,” his daughter lovingly expressed on a family Zoom call. As a teenager, he was “hanging ten” on his skateboard and surfboard before Tony Hawk made...
by Hector De Leon | Apr 8, 2018 | Featured 2
In the fall of 2014, as the number of unaccompanied children illegally crossing into the United States surged, there were calls to quickly send them home. I began to think about the idea of home and what it means from the immigrant child perspective. I asked,...
by Hector De Leon | Sep 10, 2015 | Featured 2
Cuando perdí a mi padre estaba terriblemente conmovido. Sentí que una parte de mí murio. Me sentía muy vulnerable y muy mortal. Se sentía como si tenía cinco años y estaba perdido en un lugar publico. Sin el escudo contra mis temores, mi sensación de seguridad...
by Hector De Leon | Nov 12, 2014 | Featured 2
A mother is the one constant in the life of most children. The moment my mother died compelled me to reflect on this reality. Until the age of 10, I lived with my mother in Mexico while my father lived in the USA. Once I reached adulthood, the circumstances of...
by Hector De Leon | May 19, 2014 | Featured 2
Para la mayoría de niños su madre es lo único constante en sus vidas. El momento en que murió mi madre me hizo reflexionar sobre esta realidad. Hasta la edad de 10 años yo vivía con mi madre en México mientras mi padre vivía en los EE.UU. Una vez que llegué...