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2016-07-26 19:23
“Just because you don’t believe that I want to dance…” The Gap BandNothing makes you more “woke” than a projectile launched at your head. It was a helluv… Read More
2016-07-17 15:16
M turns 8 in two months but I’m already planning her party. Actually, we started planning her party in April, a full five months in advance. I have a list that breaks down… Read More
2016-06-26 15:31
The mystery began with a disappearance. The grizzled old woman in the black headscarf went missing one morning. Those familiar with her knew her to be harmless; still negative percepti… Read More
2016-06-12 15:08
For those of you who think feathers, beads, and bright colors when Carnaval costumes are mentioned, you are only getting about 15% of the experience. In my contingent, Oakland’s SambaF… Read More
2016-05-22 14:46
When I was in college and working as an English tutor and writing workshop leader, my wonderful supervisors introduced me to the practice of artist dates. An artist date is an opportunity fo… Read More
2016-05-08 14:32
“…what she gave instead was her own DNA, her own boho mama-in-the-black-stockings self, and she trusted that this would be enough.” Lisa Jones, Bulletproof DivaFive months… Read More
2016-04-10 15:04
A not-so-funny thing happened on the first Friday of Lent. I had not yet experienced my Lenten Miracle so an incident that occurred prompted a reaction more intense than You&rsquo&hell…Read More
2016-04-03 15:15
By Emily Dickinson“We are all connected. You can no more separate one life from another than you can separate a breeze from the wind.” Mitch Albom“To survive you must tell… Read More
2016-03-28 14:36
When I was about 5 years old, maybe younger or slightly older, I remember watching a cartoon about a mongoose, Rikki-Tikki-Tavi. From the 1975 Chuck Jones TV specialHe befriended a Brit… Read More
2016-03-15 03:22
As happens every Lent, my daughter’s school hosts the Stations of the Cross every Friday. An upper grade combines with a lower grade and the children read from Scripture, act out the s… Read More
2016-03-13 17:04
That's big bro on the right passing judgmentFor years, I have pondered the apparent good fortune of people who engage in meanness and foolishness. Earlier this week, I grumbled that my… Read More
2016-02-08 17:33
Tradiciones. I wanted my daughter to experience traditional celebrations from an early age. Quite a few we established as our own family though neither Rambo nor I had experienced them… Read More
2016-01-31 19:51
Julie Ann Calderón watching Twin Peaks.16 hrs · Because real life has been Lynchian latelyLynchian: refers to a particular kind of irony where the very maca… Read More
2016-01-17 14:53
I know your pain. My hand has been ripped to shreds. My back hurts from all the puncture wounds. My hand spins when I think of all the time expended, all the words unheeded… Read More
2016-01-11 13:44
Hurt that's not supposed to showAnd tears that fall when no one knowsWhen you're trying hard to be your bestCould you be a little lessDo you know what it feels like for a girlDo you know wha… Read More
2015-12-24 20:21
I began my Advent retreat faced with new challenges. Rambo had left for his own retreat out of the country. The situation at work went from bad to worse. Within one day of setting a goal of… Read More
2015-11-29 00:41
For some people, the idea of fasting is that of un castigo, that you only do so out of obligation or guilt. But others have held that fasting helps prepare the mind and body for more focus a… Read More
2015-11-21 21:02
Elle Magazine (I’m not going to call you dear); I’m shaking my head at you. In what you say is your well-meaning attempt to battle PeopleMagazine’s biased taste in men, you… Read More
2015-11-15 17:02
“A mother is a person who seeing there are only four pieces of pie for five people, promptly announces she never did care for pie.” - Tenneva JordanI have given up pie recen… Read More
2015-11-11 18:16
Approximately 1.8 million Californians are military veterans (http://www.va.gov/vetdata/veteran_population.asp). I know many military families including those still on active duty. Of… Read More
2015-11-11 18:07
Approximately five years ago, I told Rambo about the free meals a chain restaurant was offering veterans. He thought it was a nice gesture and he began to do Internet research. He was impres… Read More
2015-10-11 16:10
A year's progressOne frazzled evening two weeks ago, I rushed home. I claimed it was to do dishes but it was actually to fall back into an old habit. The stress created by my hectic post-wor… Read More
2015-09-27 15:34
“They smile in your faceAll the time they want to take your placeThe backstabbers (backstabbers)” The O’JaysMy dad likes to tell a story of my 4-year-old reaction to my fir… Read More
2015-09-13 14:57
Presente! I have been running for nine years and in that time, I have had plenty of reasons to run, think time while I run, training calendars to follow, and miles to cover. A few… Read More
2015-09-06 15:51
“The haters gonna hate, hate, hate…” Taylor Swift, “Shake It Off” What would it be like to begin each day in anger? What would it be like to step out of… Read More
2015-08-23 16:31
“This world is your sanctuary and if that world comes in contact…Yes! It blows up.” From Seinfeld Thomas Jefferson once wrote that church and state needed to stay se… Read More
2015-08-16 16:08
It began when I ran across a Vogue fashion spread about Frida-inspired fashion. Because M and I were attending a Frida birthday celebration in San Jo, I was researching Frida in popular cult… Read More
2015-08-02 15:34
“Our lives change when our habits change.” Matthew KellyDuring the summer of 2004, I was fortunate to be awarded a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. As a high… Read More
2015-07-29 14:49
“This indecision is bugging me…” “Should I Stay or Should I Go?” The Clash“When something itches…the natural tendency is to scratch.” From T… Read More
2015-07-25 15:40
When I decided I would have my gallbladder removed this summer, I asked about diet changes. I know four friends/colleagues who had their gallbladder removed and know of countless other… Read More
2015-07-19 15:13
The postcards came from my college apartment to my house in their cheap Pier 1 Imports frames: a black and white photo of Frida, pretty and feminine, in her bedroom and a reprint of a self-p… Read More
2015-07-07 14:57
I know exactly when I first began to love Kermit the Frog. It was when he sang “The Rainbow Connection” in The Muppet Movie. I was seven years old. If I remember correctly… Read More
2015-06-29 14:12
For years, I have sought the solution to that extra ten (occasionally, twenty) pounds I’ve been carrying around since I left college. Like Oprah, I have slimmed down and blown up, from… Read More
2015-06-20 16:02
I left the serenity of my Lenten desert for the raucous alegria of Carnaval and the subsequent busyness of a school year’s end. I have missed the silence that comes when I cut back on… Read More
2015-06-07 13:53
“Fasten your seatbelts. It’s going to be a bumpy night.” Margo Channing in All about EveMy latest IGM flare-up has been an emotional roller coaster. After my initial worry… Read More
2015-05-30 14:51
I suppose I forgot. With all the glitter and feathers and glorious, glorious purples all around us, I was lulled into forgetfulness. But that 20/20 hindsight soon kicks into high gear, espec… Read More
2015-05-25 15:20
I have sometimes questioned why I would become involved in a dance community while raising a small child. These doubts have occasionally been voiced by my spouse and my mother. I am su… Read More
2015-05-17 15:48
Last year, on the Sunday before Memorial Day, I rose before sunrise and began to get dressed for Carnaval. I had asked to be able to sit on the float in full costume, my Wound-Vac cove… Read More
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