Goodbye Day

My kids go to my ex-husband’s home country with him for three weeks every summer.  They left this morning.  I want to say I’m an old pro at saying goodbye to them.  And I am.  But [...]

Oh, Carlos Danger

On behalf of Latinos, let me send this message to Anthony Weiner:  step off our names.  Of all the undignified handles this pathetic little man could have come up with, why one with the name [...]

Last “kid” birthday

Twelve years ago today, right around this time, my youngest was a couple of hours old.  (Born at 8:12 a.m., always a morning person, just like his father and so unlike his mother).  The bustle of [...]

Dinner for four

If there was ever a poster couple for a bitter divorce, it was my ex-husband and I.  We are both from traditional cultures, where marriage is understood to be forever.  We did not have a good [...]

Avoiding the inevitable

I am notoriously bad at endings.  I am all creative flash at the beginning of things, then progressively less useful as the process wears on.  Call it not being a detail person, self [...]

Free Range Fail

She got all dressed up for the occasion in a pink dress and the daintiest earrings I’d ever seen her wear.  She looked heartbreakingly grown up.  At 13, she could easily pass for 17 in that [...]

Blog tour, day 7

Wrapping up the first week of my blog tour and enjoying the great new bloggers and new Facebook “Like-ers.”  Thanks for stopping by! Today, The Secret Side of Empty is spotlighted in [...]

Blog tour, day 6

Here’s an interview with me on Much-Loved Books.  Love that blog title – I hope one day that’s what people will call The Secret Side of Empty!  Click here to read the interview [...]

Blog tour, day 5

Today’s blog tour stop finds Hispanic little me reviewed at the Irish-est blog I’ve ever seen, Celtic Lady’s Reviews.  (The right hand column of the blog begins, “Because [...]

Blog tour, day 4

Today’s “stop” on the blog tour is at Confessions of an Inner Aspen.  I just love the concept of an “inner” self, a secret self which we don’t reveal to the [...]

Blog tour, day 3

Today, The Secret Side of Empty gets spotlighted in Click here to read on Reese’s Reviews. Also:  five things about Secret Side that might surprise you!  Read it here at Bex-n-Books. Come [...]

Blog tour, day 2!

Here’s a guest post I did about one of my big influences (in life and in writing).  Click here to read it on Take Me Away – a book blog. Also, on today’s second stop, I write [...]

The blog tour begins!

I wanted to start my blog tour today, on my birthday.  I am one of the few grown-ups I know who still takes delight in her birthday as if I’m turning 5 instead of my actual age.  Balloons [...]

New York Daily News Profile

June 2, 2013 – The New York Daily News, probably one of the first newspapers I ever read, did a piece on me and the story behind The Secret Side of Empty.  Pretty cool! Read it here:  New [...]