Becoming media literate
Do you know how much of what you see is doctored in some way? If it’s in a print magazine, it’s pretty likely that what you are seeing is an […]
Complete these sentences
Day 33 in Beautiful You: A Daily Guide to Radical Self-Acceptance asks readers to complete these sentences. Here’s my take: Someone who energizes me is my dad. He is such […]
A Blessing…
A BLESSING FROM MY SIXTEEN YEARS SON I have this son who assembled inside me during Hurricane Gloria. In a flash, he appeared, in a heartbeat. Outside, pines toppled. Phone […]
In need of direction…
My sister’s birthday was, uh, last month. So last week, I finally mailed her gift. It fit in a regular envelope. Saturday, it came back to me in the form […]
nothing prepares you…
Nothing prepares you for the emotionally painful part of parenting. For when life is hard for your little one and you cannot just inhabit his body and make choices that […]
Q&A with Claudia Corletto-Coleman
I first met Claudia Corletto-Coleman when I was touring for Hijas Americanas, and we were able to hook up a couple times when I was in her neck of the woods. […]
Let the revolution begin (or it’s never about you)…
“If I teach you nothing else- wait, I lie, I want to teach you other things, too, but this is a really important thing I want you to learn from […]
Random Bits
So, some bits for you… 1. For months, Happy has been talking about Fuffin whenever we bring up preschool. Who the heck is Fuffin, we wondered. We looked at the […]
