Moda Foca Stories
Culture, rebellion, and the people who wear it.

Another State of Mind
We think that life is going to go according to our plan, but it has a way of saying “I don’t think so!” My heart goes...

UC Nobelist
Huge respect to Dr. Doudna and Dr. Charpentier for dropping one of the most powerful tools in medicine...CRISPR. Open...

Six Months to the Line
Port placed. Travel guitar in hand...quiet, but present. Chemo has begun. Four hours at a time, six months to the fin...

The Dude Abides
In 2021, a lymphoma diagnosis, underwent chemotherapy, and contracted COVID-19 while severely immunocompromised. “I f...

Rambling Rose
Hildegard, our Rambling Rose, raised in East Berlin during the war, carried strength that never needed to be loud. In...

Big Juan
A loving shout for a husband, father, brother, and cousin who rode the MODA FOCA fight all the way to the horizon wit...

Keep Ur Head Up Nola
Sweet Emma had a stroke, but still came to Preservation Hall in a wheelchair to play the piano. Healing through music...

Abu
Mom aka Abu is a 4x cancer survivor. Breast in ’94. Ovarian in '12. Breast again in '15. Splenic in '18. Each time de...
