The author, in his youth, as a member of a migrant farmworker family, was surrounded by other migrant Mexican families throughout this early period in his life.  It was only natural that his first language was Spanish and he learned to speak, read and write in Spanish at a very young age and prior to enrolling in the first grade in the small community named “La Colonia," just outside of Shafter, California.

During these migrant years, as they traveled throughout the San Joaquin Central Valley and Oregon and Idaho working the many different crops, i.e., onions, potatoes, cotton, grapes, cherries, peaches, almonds, etc., the male migrant workers would often gather around a campfire in the evenings and share stories of their day’s work or other events and experiences in life.  The author would listen to them converse with short comments that would draw laughter followed by other short comments from others with the same result.  Later, his father, would explain what these short comments meant that would bring laughter and other short comments from others.

This was the author’s introduction to the World of Dichos!

Over the years, with his worldwide travels to over 63 countries, he was able to visit many Spanish-Speaking countries such as Spain, Mexico, Chile, Argentina, Columbia, Peru and Central America and thus able to accumulate, to date, over 7,000 Dichos.

The author has written three books and has spoken to thousands over the years using humorous graphics of some of his Dichos to make a point regarding the subject matter being discussed.

He still continues to make presentations to community groups, schools and organizations using Dichos and humorous graphics of Dichos to address the importance of their son and daughters receiving an education.