by Isaac Cubillos | Apr 8, 2025
I didn’t start out swinging. I started out writing obits. Back at The Daily Californian, my job was to memorialize strangers with brevity and dignity. No politics. No heat. Just names, dates, and silence. That’s how I learned to write—by confronting the end of stories...
by Isaac Cubillos | Apr 7, 2025
I didn’t launch Cubillos.com because I needed a hobby. I did it because I couldn’t stay quiet anymore. When you’ve spent as much time in newsrooms, with the military grunts, and city halls as I have, you start to recognize the signs of history circling back—this time...
