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Harvest Thanks November 26, 2025 – Posted in: recent

7.Pick ONE injustice you find so abhorrent you cannot sleep. Find a doable  way you can combat it, even if it seems at the moment inconsequential, do it and keep doing it. Be that ant, the woodpecker, the annoying retired neighbor that comes out the house everyday, the sun that rises each day–keep fighting for what you believe is right for the planet. You alone cannot change the world but you as an individual can make a difference. 

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Paperbacks! & a reading suggestion October 10, 2024 – Posted in: recent

Eyeball deep as I dot “i’s and cross “t”s, revise, revise, make corrections and pretty much do the solitary work of the writer I set out to bea half century ago.  The novel’s working title is ISABEL2121, although (hint) a different title is on the current draft.  As soon as I’m ready to turn in I can post a possible pub date with HarperVia (Harper Collins) that had the faith to invest in this challenging…

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Virtual Writing Workshop 10/16/21 August 17, 2021 – Posted in: workshops

One hour virtual writing workshop with me coming up Oct 16h.  Link below to register. Donations (suggested $25.) benefit Latina 50 Plus.  

Workshop: Count Your Losses:  On Grief and Aging.  

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/latina-50-plus-wellness-program-ana-castillo-writing-workshop-tickets-167330410763

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Transactional Chicanx Perspectives on Ana Castillo: a Reader June 19, 2021 – Posted in: recent

The ever widening controversy and heated debates on how to label ourselves in 2021 if we are from countries south of the border or the Spanish-speaking Caribbean, or descended from there, if we have inherited genes that cause us to identify more with the legacy of colonizers or of the colonized and once enslaved, or both depending on the day and circumstance, how we look at gender and sexuality…

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