UPDATED April 26, 2018 Last week I looked over some old press clippings about myself from 10 years ago, profiles in places like the New York Times and Chicago Tribune. The articles talked about me in the context of the release of my first novel, and quoted me accurately in ways that now make me […]
UPDATED March 26th, 2018 By many measures, my relationship with my current boyfriend, known to y’all here as The Cowboy, is the first healthy relationship I’ve had. Though it’s easy to sit back and look at the failed relationships of my past and blame the men who “hurt” or “betrayed” me, I am certain that […]
UPDATED February 27th, 2018 It’s never easy, this whole dating-as-a-single-mom thing. First, you have to find the time to actually go somewhere without your kid. Second, you have to basically become a double-agent in your own life, juggling your role as head of your family with your role as the fun-loving, eligible girl. Lately, this […]
UPDATED November 16th, 2017 My son surprised me this week by telling me that he would like to change his name to something “not Spanish” in order to “avoid discrimination later in life.”I had very mixed feelings about this proclamation from my ten-year-old. On the one hand, I’m aware—very aware—of the numerous studies out, clearly […]
UPDATED June 17th, 2017 Mother’s Day is not a happy event for all. Especially not for those who hate their own moms. Los Angeles native and screenwriter Nicole Gonzalez McIntosh was eight years old when her mother first threw her out of the house to live on her own. Janette Rosario-Brol of Illinois recently took out […]
Not too long ago, I had what I considered to be a legitimate problem to discuss with my boyfriend. Sure, it wasn’t actually anything that had happened. Yet. It was something I’d been thinking about that might happen, if certain other things happened, all of those things being caused by something else hypothetical that might […]
If you’re anything like me, you’ve found it hard to lose weight even when you’re exercising regularly and are eating healthful foods. Because weight gain and loss are really a matter of simple mathematics (calories in versus calories out) it doesn’t take a genius to realize that difficulty losing weight is due to too many […]
German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche once said, “The lie is a condition of life.” Depressing? Sure. But, as any woman who has ever been in any kind of relationship with any other human being on the planet can tell you, there’s a lot of truth in that statement. Don’t despair, though. Even if lying is a […]
Children who lie are more likely to enjoy success down the road! So you’ve caught your kid lying to you. Obviously, this pisses you off. How dare they! You’re their mother, for Crissakes. They owe you. Most mamis I asked said without hesitation that if you catch your kid lying, you lay down the law […]