beautiful you. the workshop
beautiful you. the workshop is a one-day self-awareness and empowerment retreat based on Beautiful You: A Daily Guide to Radical Self-Acceptance. Led by Rosie Molinary*, participants will use writing exercises […]
Gringa: A Contradictory Girlhood
When I have my act together, Tuesdays are the day to blog about culture, identity, and/or community engagement. And, today, hooray for us, I have my act together because I get to tell […]
Q&A with Allison Winn Scotch
One of the books tucked into my beach book basket is Allison Winn Scotch’s latest, The One That I Want. I first discovered Allison as a freelance writer and found […]
the greatest surprise
We left the house this morning for the Y. I had Happy’s bag stuffed with snacks, diapers, wipes, water, and the all important milk. We can’t go anywhere these days […]
Baby Bits
We had the wonderful good fortune a few weeks ago to wake up to a message from some of our favorite people, The Andersons. Jillian and Ashley adopted their boys at the […]
Random Bits
Sometimes, I feel like such a fraud saying that I am a writer. My work time is compressed into the 15 hours that Happy is with the babysitter each week and, […]
Become a 2016 Circle de Luz M'ija
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhEBP6_3O2U] Circle De Luz radically empowers young Latinas by supporting and inspiring them in the pursuit of their possibilities through extensive mentoring, programming, and scholarship funds for further education. You […]
Pretty
And here is the second video I promised you on Friday. This is another You Tube video of a slam poet (and yes, there is a four letter word in […]
Let's talk
One of the key things we were told by our social worker, the two adoption medicine specialists, and in the books we read before we adopted was “TALK ALL THE […]
Want to star in a book trailer?
When I was a kid, my brother (who will be mortified that I remember this and more mortified that I shared this in a public forum) and his friend wrote […]
