My Bridge with Gloria
TweetI wrote this several months ago after reading portions of This Bridge Called My Back. I sit on a quiet evening, at a white desk with a light, transparent curtain filtering out the summer sun with...
View ArticleMy Nicaraguan Father: Reflections on Feminism, Letters, and Digital Media
Tweet My Nicaraguan Father: Reflections on Feminism, Letters, and Digital Media Dedicated to Don Manual Montiello My Nicaraguan father, who I had not seen in eight years, died this week. A man with a...
View ArticleUnapologetically Me
TweetSO – my new website is underway and I am feel like a kid peering into a toy store that hasn’t opened yet. I’m fascinated by any and all glimpses of what could be inside. I have to say that this...
View ArticleThe Artist’s Way
TweetSome weeks ago (my memory is really bad since pregnancy), my dear friend and much respected writer, BFP, wrote something along the lines of saying that she was less interested in “activism” and...
View ArticleWriting a Homily
TweetA dream I’ve always had is to preach from a pulpit. Ever since I was a kid, I always wanted to stand in front of a congregation and lead others in a reflection of God, scripture, and its relevance...
View ArticleThe 12 Startling Similarities Between God and the Right Editor
TweetI’ve been a writer all my life. I cannot remember a time when my right hand did not grasp a pen and moved left to right on a page, documenting the significant and insignificant morsels of living....
View ArticleThe Illusion of Permission
TweetI never earned a degree in photography, but I call myself a photographer. No one ever taught me how to write creatively, but I call myself a writer in creative non-fiction. There’s an illusion of...
View ArticleWriters’ Greed
TweetOn so many levels, this explains my intrepid spirit to go, do, be, feel, experience anything and everything. And simultaneously, the sardonic evil emotional twin that accompanies this. I would...
View ArticleA Guide on How To Write About Sexual Violence, In Reaction to “Mellie’s Rape”...
TweetIt was horribly done. Last night’s handling of sexual violence. Scandal writers “explaining” the history of Fitz and Mellie’s marriage, how Mellie came to be how she is now. The writers took us...
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