A Woman on the Verge…
Thank you all for your responses. Because of you we are putting together an Amazon book list. But I do want to also say I think it's perfectly wonderful to send Just. One. Book. That's your favorite from your teen years. Im sure one might duplicate now and then but we can always share with …
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Just. One. Book. I live in a town of 1200 people in the Northern Sierra Nevada --where it meets the Cascade Range near Mt. Lassen National Park and about two hours drive northwest of Reno, NV. Two hundred of that population is students. Over the years as the population dwindled after mills closed, then --nothing except tourism …
Ever not realize until perhaps almost too late that you need to get away? That's kind of where I was earlier this month. I needed to go somewhere and not think about long term projects looming over my head. So I headed to Carmel Valley for the first time in at least 16 years. My mother …
It took me awhile to figure out just what throwing chanclas should be. At first I thought parenting parody but perhaps the joke would be far too on the inside. Also. There's other places for that. But then I thought I'm looking at things all wrong. I always responded to the chancla as a kid. That is …
One of the best parts of getting older is recognizing what your boundaries are. Not that Latinas always recognize that very gringa word. But knowing what you should and can say yes to and what you can't say yes to is such a big step in becoming the grand vieja you were meant to be. …
My Mexican grandfather was a gardener. He was one of those men who pulled up to white men’s houses in an old aquamarine Chevy truck filled with three different kinds of lawn mowers, all sorts of clippers, bag to cart stuff away. He worked in threadbare button down shirts and old pants, not jeans. To …
So, first off, I live in like one of the whitest corners of California: Plumas County the northeastern corner of the state. White people who are on welfare vote Republican here. Yeah, no shit. White people up here believe that the United Nations is coming for their ranches and are …
The Many Uses of Chanclas had me laughing! This is so true. Thanks Latina-Ish for posting this.
I get this all the time. Someone is always coming up to me on the street, in the market, on trains, airplanes, and commenting in overwhelming relief about how good my children are. Apparently American culture is so used to disrespectful children that they are flummoxed at the possibility of young children not being jerks in public. …
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