Latina Moms | Daughters
With technology, such as Smartphones and digital pocket cameras at our fingertips every waking moment, it’s easier than ever to capture photos and video of our children’s lives. And, given the prevalence of social media, it’s easier to share them, too. But how to archive and preserve memories comprised of pixels and megabytes, data most [...]
The new Arizona mandate to end the Tucson Unified School District’s Mexican American studies classes this week had school officials boxing and carting out of classrooms books that deal with oppression, race and ethnicity, including those pictured here. School district officials have told news sources the books aren’t banned, just removed from the classroom in [...]
Latino families have been making tamales for generations, recipes handed down from grandmothers to mothers to daughters and so on as in the story of Rebecca Lopez in Tamales: A Gift of Love, Culture and Fellowship. There are many variations, from sweet to savory and everything in between. Here are a few of our favorites, [...]
As soon as the turkey leftovers vanished last month, Rebecca Lopez’s friends began calling with a single question: “Are you going to have a tamalada this year?” Yes, ’tis the season for making and eating tamales, but it wasn’t just the food her friends yearned for; it was the sense of community and warmth they [...]
Recently, the chef and owner of Dallas’ upscale Stephan Pyles restaurant hosted what would be a highly spirited cooking class with longtime friend and popular New York chef and cookbook author, Zarela Martinez. No sooner had Mr. Pyles introduced the woman who was among the first chefs to bring authentic regional Mexican cuisine to Manhattan [...]
When I recently learned that someone whose work I’d long admired had publicly torn down one of our peers on the heels of that peer achieving a career milestone, I was stunned. The person inflicting the damage was a figure long admired among mi gente, a mentor emulated and followed by others. This person had [...]
In the mid-1990s I was covering a political rally in California with a Latina colleague when a Brown Beret asked a version of the question we’d both heard for years: “We hear you guys in Texas call yourselves Hispanics. What’s up with that?” He meant, of course, as opposed to calling ourselves Chicanos. And he [...]
On a cool morning in El Paso, I stood at the edge of the Rio Grande. The sun snagged on the current’s ripples, creating undulating webs of light on the river’s surface. The grass beneath my feet rustled and cracked; spring hadn’t yet tinted it green. This was a moment of transition; its weight was [...]
I am not a mother. But as my own mom slips inexorably into the oblivion that is Alzheimer’s Dementia the opportunities are rife for me to consider motherhood from the perspective of daughter. Through my blog about caring for my mother, I’ve connected with other daughters of mothers with dementia. And I’m finding that no [...]
