20 years
My first marriage in my 20s lasted five minutes and ended when my then husband left me for his coworker. Soon after, I went through early menopause which meant my body stopped producing eggs and I’d never be able to create a baby. Over the next 14 years, I moved from NYC to California and […]
Mateo’s New Suit
My son Mateo recently discovered my old Mamalita blog and told me he loved reading about himself when he was a little boy. So I decided to cut and paste entries into a file and put together a little book for him and Olivia–the baby book I never kept except for my years of blog […]
Mamalita audiobook
Today was Day 2 of taping the audiobook of my memoir, Mamalita. Why tape an audiobook of a book published 11 years ago? I can’t explain why, except that I own the audio rights and the time feels right. Reading the book from beginning to end brings back many details I’d forgotten. A torrent of […]
Olivia’s visit
Olivia visited this weekend. Took the train from Merced to Emeryville, where Tim picked her up. The weather was gloriously sunny and she spent Saturday in San Francisco with a friend, eating takeout from Maya Fusion, walking through Golden Gate Park, listening to drummers from Brazil and wandering through the Cal Academy of Science. For […]
Move in day
Yesterday we dropped off our daughter Olivia for her first day as a freshman at UC Merced. I cried when we drove up to the campus and I saw the University of California sign. Olivia is a person who has had to work very hard every single day of her academic life. And here she […]