Two Men and Me is a poem that appears in this journal and was nominated for a Pushcart. As a multi-genre writer, in terms of poetry is comes slowly. However, I am thrilled that I have finally gotten what may be a new collection together. #21 Insomnia doesn’t have to be unproductive time. #22. Start a list of 100 Blessings. This list may at first be about all the obvious. Your health, your loves…
Continue readingEasy for me to say you may say reading books versus binging on Netflix. But if you are planning on chillin with Neftlix #12 I do recommend “The Great Hack.” If you “multi-task,” (i.e. surf on your device, talk/text, listen to jams on your EarPods, yell at your kids, snuggle with your pet, argue with your imaginary frenemy, etc.) please listen to to that fifteen minutes. That’s my first recommendation here for easing some…
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Continue readingMany of us, among the billion on Fb, have been hacked and know our accounts may easily be manipulated. Still, we remain–for the sake of self-interest, in the name of staying “connected,” or a habit that has gotten hold of our better instinct. Whatever reason you stay on, proceed with caution. Ads catered to your personality and searches and political manipulation to get your vote at elections are not the only ways your life will…
Continue reading(with faculty & leader-students at Santa Barbara CC, fall, 2018) No question that Xicano/as/x, Latinx/Latinos/as with consciousness, conscientación are suffering from anxiety, depression and PTSD. Among our older population, we are re-living pre-Civil Rights times. Younger generation have in front of them the ongoing onslaught of having rights as POC, Latino/a/x, LGBTQ, working class, anyone marginalized, not white AND privileged– systematically removed. Some daily practices may be useful: Stay off-line as much as you can.…
Continue readingEasy these days to dismiss your elders. “Leave home while you still. know everything,” is the adage to know it alls. Here’s a topic that has been about forever, bisexuality. What we may understand about those who identify as bixexuals is that under that label there is a myriad of differences. Speaking for myself, as all anyone may do, it does not mean I am Hakate, a two head female monster with constant voracious…
Continue readingFoglifter’s LGBTQ+ Bay Area Emerging Writer Fellowships Applications, and more specifics, can be accessed through our Submittable portal. Foglifter Editor info@foglifterpress.com Writers have to Write Right Now: An Interview with Ana Castillo
Continue readingA life dedicated to service to the great good, whereby personal gain, career ambitions, glam, bling and all that glitters seducing our vanity from the bottomless pit of the capitalist, exploitive world we inhabit is worthy of respect. Social media with its free and vast potential to reach the masses may feel like the platform for such service. To some born into the Era of the Internet, it seems to be the very definition of…
Continue readingThere are endless platforms on social media to rant, to ‘hate on,’ to think you are calling out those who you think you know better than. Heaven knows, I am on both ends of that privilege that the internet has afforded these times. I am 66 years old this year of the Baby Boomer gen. I identified as a Xicana/Chicana. I identified as a feminist. I am the daughter of factory workers in Chicago. We…
Continue readingAside from staying healthy and in a good mental state in “These Times?” I am nearly done with a new collection of poems, MY BOOK OF THE DEAD. A few have appeared in. small publications. There are about a half dozen at this time in Spanish which will be included with translation. There is also prose ruminating in my cabezahead. There was much to think about in the address I was asked to give…
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