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Women's Characters in Fiction

While attending a Writers Conference last weekend, I attended a class based on women’s characters in fiction. I learned that there are...

Boricuas in the Aloha State

U-a, si-la Pa-a ia me o-e Ko a-lo-ha ma-ka-mea e i-po Ka-‘u ia e le-i a-e ne-i la. Now that we are one Clouds won’t hide the sun ...

Living a Life Following Blue

I follow blue—blue skies, blue colors, blue sea. I remember travelling to Europe in my twenties and planning it around the sea. My idea...

We the People

Mi gente, my homies, Nuyoricans, all Puerto Ricans---I am so proud of my people. We have suffered; we have cried; we have mourned the...

How to Be a Girl in Today's World

I grew up during the time when the Women's Liberation Movement was all the rage. Gloria Steinem, Betty Friedan, Maya Angelou were the...

Tears from My Ancestors

Before my mother died, she showed me her genealogical chart. It showed a rich history of ancestry on her mother’s side. It was a history...

The Art of Dance

Dance changed my life. It changed the direction of where I was going and what I had been focused on. I was going through a very painful...

When a Man Loves a Woman

She has a seductive grace that drives me mad. Radiant stars fill her eyes with their luminosity. She has many charms; He has no...

The Music of Our Soul

Our souls knew it beyond the islands, and beyond the sun, Your dream and my dream ignited, Tune of my Island. Poem of the "Eternal...

The Dream of a Father

“Those who fail to 'become the river' keep the momentum going that carries others to the completion of a goal. - Martin Espada My father...