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Uncle Monarch and the Day of the Dead

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Uncle Monarch and the Day of the Dead By Judy Goldman • Illustrated by René King Moreno Boyds Mill Press • 2008 • 32 pages Hardcover ($16.95) ISBN 978-1-59078-425-9 Ages 7-9 Every year, Lupita and her aging Uncle Urbano wait…
LATISM12: An Empowering Social Media Experience

LATISM12: An Empowering Social Media Experience

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It’s really hard, if not impossible, to do a recap of a social media conference without feeling that you were unfair to someone by omission. But then, when attending a social media conference, I always leave with the feeling that I didn’t…
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Wallowing & Movin’ On: Break Up Songs to Get You Through

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Break ups and broken hearts are a sad fact of life and although few experiences are as crippling as a broken heart, time does heal all wounds. Making it through to the other side a little stronger and a lot wiser is an empowering rite of passage…
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How Do Singles Celebrate Halloween?

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Kids love Halloween for the candy and spooky costumes but adults (especially singles) love it because it’s a night to indulge in sexy, thrilling, taboo fantasies. There’s a reason we always see so many Sexy Nurses and normally macho men…
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Hurricane Sandy: A Mother in the Eye of the Storm

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I know about hurricanes. In 2004 I moved to the U.S. and landed in Miami one day ahead of Hurricane Jeanne. The same summer, my now ex-husband had relocated before the rest of the family, one day ahead of Hurricane Ivan. That was shortly after…
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7 Questions for Adriana Páramo: Author of 'Looking for Esperanza'

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Colombian author and mother Adriana Páramo’s brother and father left her family when she was seven, so she grew up in a household of women: her mother, four sisters and aunts. Her powerful new book, Looking for Esperanza, is also about…
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A Dad Confronts Separation Anxiety

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For the past couple of weeks, in the back seat of my truck lie two small blocks of packing foam—trash by all appearances, except to me. As I loaded my truck a couple of weeks ago bound for a new chapter in my life, I worried aloud to…
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Why Modern Men Feel Insecure Around Women

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UPDATED: August 1st, 2016  Women are more self-reliant than ever before. It’s hard to imagine a time when we were often referred to as the “weaker sex”. We are better described as being strong, self-made and self-sufficient. But…
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3 Latina Mothers Who Turned Heartbreak into a Life Mission

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Being a mother is hard under the best of circumstances, but there are some women who are handed an unthinkable fate: the loss of a child. Instead of retreating from the world and drowning in their grief, there are mothers who have managed…