Category Archives: Blog

What keeps me going.. (E)

This blog contains explicit language, so read on and clutch your pearls or unsubscribe if you don’t like what you read. Stay Blessed. It’s the 63rd day of school… counting Monday to Friday.. almost always looking forward to the weekend.. sometimes taking my earned right to personal days.. I wasn’t this teacher and I missContinue reading “What keeps me going.. (E)”

Making Lemonade

Never has that saying, ‘when life gives you lemons’ hit the hardest for me than now. For all that haven’t heard the news, Ms. Chavez is no longer a teacher at Fashion High, and whether it is important to some and not important to many, the WHY begs to be explored and exposed because itContinue reading “Making Lemonade”

The breaking of my heart..

I witnessed the burial of my grandmother two weeks ago in her home country.. I knew that would be part of saying goodbye, traveling to see her remains entered in the mausoleum she built for the sake of her daughter’s remains 47 years ago. We were ready and not ready to say goodbye.. she lingeredContinue reading “The breaking of my heart..”

It’s nothing to be embarrassed about

‘Lo dico perche non ce niente da vergognarsi’Trans: ‘I say it because there’s nothing to be ashamed of’ This is what my Italian friend told me after she announced on a group chat that she may not be able to see me when I go to Italy this summer, because she has cancer. To beContinue reading “It’s nothing to be embarrassed about”

‘I forgot to have children’

My Jewish bubby Carole would joke about herself. And gifted me this postcard with the same sentimnt, a crying woman in pop art style, saying the same. She also would say, ‘my dear Rosie, you know you were born without the DNA strand for ‘kindness”, and it wouldn’t bother me because she was right. CaroleContinue reading “‘I forgot to have children’”

The Queen is Alive and Human Connection is Dead.. or has been replaced.

I am an open book… it is in my nature to speak, to write, to voice what I feel, to blow the whistle LOUD.. as LOUD as possible. Whether it creates turmoil or not, that will not change. This will allow anyone to see, to hear my position but not necessarily understand it, or understandContinue reading “The Queen is Alive and Human Connection is Dead.. or has been replaced.”

You’ve been raised by immigrant’s when..

you’re cautious about what you want to say in front of a group and play it in your head in English before you open your mouth because it’s not your first language.. Yes, you were raised by immigrants. Now.. I KNOW there are more ‘immigrant if’s’ as I have lived and relived my formative yearsContinue reading “You’ve been raised by immigrant’s when..”