Tag: familia

• November 2, 2018

  10 Year Cycles

  Nostalgia has always been a haunting presence in my life. Too often let my mind wander into the what ifs and I hone in on key moments, key people. At age 41 you’d think I get over this nasty little habit, stop feeding the bad spirits so that they recognize they can’t have a home…
• January 28, 2018

  The Wormhole of Memory

  Image by David Samuel I have not been good at blogging. It’s not for a lack of things I want to say/write about. It’s a lack of wanting to share them. Which is strange because I didn’t used to have a problem with sharing and when I decided to start blogging again this year I…
• January 6, 2018

  Access

  After 20 years of mamihood, I should be less surprised by the hoops various systems make you jump through in order to be “engaged”, “involved” or whatever other term these systems use to judge “parental involvement”. But I’m still shocked, even as I go through the hoops with all the privileges that I have: language,…
• November 6, 2008

  Milagros

  After a 9 hour operation inside her head, My titi opened her eyes last evening and started singing. She recognized her sisters, her nieces, and her daughter. She said she was happy Obama was president and sent love to my toddler. She knew her name, the year, where she was, and she knew that she…
• November 5, 2008

  I Do Not Live, Work, breath in the Abstract : This is Real

  Yes, last night was historic. As much as I wanted to bask in it, feel it, cry for it, and jump for it, it was hard. For the past few days I have been in the middle of a family crisis. My dear tia/madrina, the one who was always just down the block from me…