Tamarindo – a Podcast for Thinking Latinos!
Their logo is my favorite color. Brenda Gonzalez and Ana Sheila (pronounced “shay-la”) Victorino host Tamarindo, a podcast targeted at Latino millennials. I’m part of Generation X, but I’m working on...
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In autumn 2012 I had had such a bizarre and frustrating experience of dog ownership that I used National Novel Writing Month to draft a memoir of what I’d been through the previous year with a pitbull...
View ArticleThink Before You Message About Racism
When another white man kills more Black people or indigenous people or other people of color (BIPOC) and the news media makes it a national, dinnertime story, there’s this thing many well-meaning...
View ArticleMedium.com Writing Contest
I also publish on a platform called Medium.com. It’s sort of like YouTube, but for writing: anyone big or small can publish and you can make money if you get enough readers. They ran a contest in July...
View ArticleMiddle-Aged Woman Doesn’t Regret Not Having Children
First published on Medium.com on Oct. 10, 2021 People sometimes mention to me that they have children. I don’t respond and wait for them to get back to the topic of our Zoom. Sometimes, in person, a...
View ArticleI Hate Myself: Depression and Low Self-Esteem Aren’t Always Linked
For the four and a half decades (starting in high school) that I struggled with chronic depression, I believed my low self-esteem was caused by that depression. Or maybe my self-esteem contributed to...
View ArticlePandemic Brought Me More Racist Micro Aggressions
For many of us, the pandemic and its American response strained relationships and ended friendships. It shrank my social circle so much I became desperate to meet new people and make new friends, but...
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What Is Cinco de Mayo?
Cinco de mayo is not Mexico’s independence day (that’s 16 September). Cinco de mayo is the day on which the Mexican army successfully defended the city of Puebla from French forces in 1862. The odds...
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Mexicans Are the Biggest U.S. Latino Group and Yet…
On cinco de mayo, let’s recognize achievements by Mexican Americans. No, wait. Let’s go in the opposite direction. Let’s look at how many famous Latinos in American culture are not Mexican. Keep in...
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Being Obese Is Not Our Fault: Robert Lustig Uncovers ALL the Causes of Extra...
I’m reading Dr. Robert Lustig’s 2012 book Fat Chance: Beating the Odds Against Sugar, Processed Food, Obesity, and Disease. I already knew sugar was toxic to the body, but here’s what this book taught...
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