Yes, I already had the talk with him since this is his first year of high school. Not about the birds and the bees, although we have had that talk too. A while ago actually. I’m referring to the talk about not forgetting where you came from and being proud […]
Mexican American
What does it mean to be Mexican in the U.S.?
Honestly, that’s an important question we should be asking ourselves. I say that not only because of the rhetoric around the Mexican experience that has been so prevalent this election season, although that’s part of the reason we should be talking about this. The main reason, for me, that attempting […]
Texas Pride: Lizzie Velasquez
I’m sharing this video today because last week someone else shared it on my Facebook stream, and ever since then I have been tremendously inspired by this young woman. Not only has Lizzie Velasquez managed to rise above the ignorance that at at one point in her life labeled her […]
Being Americano: It Hasn’t Always Meant Fitting Right In For This Tejano
I write a lot about being Mexican. Way too much in fact, some have told me. For the record I don’t think there’s such a thing as way too much when it comes to writing about my culture. The truth is I’ve always been much more comfortable with that part […]
Pomp and Circumstance: The Day our Dog knocked us back down into Reality
We had never lived in a neighborhood like this one before. There were rules about almost everything: how high your grass could get before you’d get one of those friendly little reminders in the mail, where you could park your car, obviously not on the lawn as we soon found […]