Entries by Belén Aranda-Alvarado

Mother’s Day Gifts That Don’t Suck!

We are declaring Mother’s Day 2012 to be National “Not-my-mama’s Mother’s Day.” Tell your partner to leave the Live, Love, Laugh plaques in the clearance bin at the discount store where they oh-so-rightfully belong. Alert the wee ones that the tongue depressor and yarn frames they made in crafts class won’t cut it this year. […]

How to Get Your Spouse To Help at Home!

Are you trying to get your spouse to help at home? If your man is only doing 50% of the cooking, cleaning and daily straightening up that comes with being a living, breathing, sentient human being, then homeboy is getting off easy. And despite whatever you are telling yourself, your relationship is not equal. Why? […]

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One Year Later: A Chilean Miner’s Wife Remembers

Editor’s Note: Elvira Valdivia is a mother of two, and wife of Mario Sepúlveda, one of 33 Chilean miners that began a harrowing 69 day underground ordeal starting on August 5th, 2010. Her husband was the second to emerge from the mine, and he did so with exuberance, bearing souvenirs and leading the crowd in […]