My landlady's yard -- Documenting the undocumented -- Blue eyes, brown eyes: a pocho tours Mexico -- El Paso -- Vaya con dios, Rosendo Juarez -- Wyoming eats coyote -- Los gellos -- Living el Chuco -- Mi mommy -- Me macho, you Jane -- L.A. Navidad -- The donkey show -- The border trilogy by Cormac McCarthy -- Un grito de Tejas -- What I would have said about the state of Texas literature -- From a letter to Pat Ellis Taylor -- Eulogy for Don Ricardo Sanchez -- Note on lit from the Americas -- Steinbeck -- Get over it, good brown man -- This writer's life -- If you were a carpenter -- Northeast direct -- Dream comes true -- Spanish guy -- Victoria -- I want to see a fortune-teller -- Bullfight, vegetables, death -- Poverty is always starting over -- Rite of passage -- Books suck -- M'ijo goes to college -- Letter to my sons -- Work union -- 010100 -- Pride.