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End Salary Secrecy

We’ve all heard the statistic that women earn 70 cents for every dollar that men earn. Many arguments are made to try and explain it away, saying that women opt out of the work-force during key career-building years in order to have children. But the data shows that when you control for that, women still […]

Writing – what to tell vs. what to leave out

My first completed manuscript was a memoir I have since (temporarily, I hope) shelved. It didn’t sell for a variety of reasons, chief among them that it was pretty poorly written. If the me of tenyears ago would have heard that, she would have crumpled in agony and never written another word. But the me […]

A case of the vagaries

I am awash in words. Words I write. Words I read. I’m on a writing retreat with nothing to do but think about language, lush, rich, flinty, cruel, imprecise and taunting. It’s delicious. This occurred to me because I thought of the word “vagary.” Specifically, I thought of the phrase, “the vagaries of love,” a […]

Lost and Found

Just when you think the world can’t surprise you, it does. Today it surprised me in a way so simple and so moving it brought tears to my eyes. Over the weekend I was running some errands with the kids. Nothing special. But I’d replay them later, step by step, where I drove, where I […]

The year so far

2015 has proven interesting so far. I rang it in with my favorite people. They went ahead and facilitated the biggest drunken stupor I’ve been in since Clinton was in office. I rarely drink so I did not hold it well at all. I let out secrets that weren’t mine to tell and otherwise made […]

The year in unreview

Sweet ‘ums, I’ve neglected you. I’ve been off from work/life/writing, lounging and eating and even going for long, aimless hikesin the damp winter air. I’ve considered cleaning, avoided it, done it half-heartedly and watched the laundry pile up. I’ve done a whole lot of nothing but play video games and watch stand-up specials with my […]

Merry Christmas from my family to yours

How did I make fully grown humans? I’m not even sure. But here they are during our fabulous Christmas Eve celebration. In keeping with Latino tradition, our big party happens on the 24th, not the 25th. The 25th is for hanging out in pajamas and eating leftover empanadas. I know most of you will be […]

Back from San Fran!

To top off my highest travel year to date, last week I headed to San Francisco for a whirlwind three-day trip full of fun, eating, more eating and one fabulous party. I had drinks in the Castro District, drove over the beautiful Golden Gate Bridge, marveled at the many moods of the bay and its […]

Happy Winter Solstice

Today is the shortest day of the year. It’s appropriately gray outside. The light is dim and anemic. I love this day. I begin to think about the winter solstice right around the time the leaves start to fall from my garden in October. There is a certain sadness to fall, the end of something, […]

Top 10 Latino Books of 2014 by School Library Journal

THE SECRET SIDE OF EMPTY isin pretty awesome company on this list of Top 10 Latino Books of 2014 by School Library Journal, including my friend Skila Brown’s beautiful novel in verse, Caminar. See the whole list: click here.