About

My name is Pedro Chávez, someone who loves to write, to tell stories, write songs, create videos, but more than anything else, to have fun doing it.

I was born in Mexicali, Baja California, Mexico, near downtown and next to a stinky canal that thank goodness is now covered up. I was born in 1946, a year after the big war ended and six years before Baja California became Mexico’s twenty-ninth state. I did most of the traditional gigs while growing up there, like selling newspapers, shining shoes and pushing Adams Chiclets to my newspaper and shoeshine customers. Eventually, I also sold shoes door to door, mainly in Colonia Cuauhtémoc, in the neighborhood where I and the rest of my family lived.

In early 1962, our mother decided that we would go north, to the United States, and we soon did — eleven of us. Mother, father, and nine offspring — five brothers and four sisters. By the summer of that year, and after a couple of trips to the U.S. Consulate in Tijuana, we had our permanent resident visas on hand. We were ready to conquer the world.

Don’t want to bore you with additional personal details. Just want to welcome you to this online page about the stuff that I love to do. To write and to tell stories in varied ways.