June 23, 2022 mi Chicana Garden Southern Colorado 2022 Dear Reader, It is officially summer, and I spent the solstice riding on a quad runner with mi esposo in the Sangre de Cristos near the cell phone towers at 10,000 feet (about twice the elevation of Denver, Colorado). The air felt thin and caused me […]
May 25, 2022 Dear Reader, This year I’ve written book reviews, judged book contests, entered two manuscripts for publishing and started writing a new novel. My writing has been sporadic, and my submissions have been few, but I continue to write and read and do research and learn every day. I’ve been writing for the […]
Louise Mondragon Aragon April 7, 1923-December 24, 2008 presente Dear Reader, I probably shouldn’t tell you this, but… This is the writing prompt: I’m challenging you to write a page, paragraph, or sentence and tell me your story. I love this prompt because it forces me to think out of the box and be original, […]
Dearest Granddaughters, I’m a mother, an aunt, a great aunt, and a great-great-aunt, but I’m not a Grandmother. Not yet. Maybe never. But my sisters have shared their grandchildren with me and my nieces have shared their grandchildren with me; therefore I am a tia abuelita. This letter is to these granddaughters of other women […]
1990’s Cast from Su Teatro Intro to Chicano History 101 by Anthony J. Garcia Dear Reader, I woke at 4:30 a.m. and realized that I’m losing my mind. I thought about the state of the country and I began to cry and laugh simultaneously. I wondered if I’d gone insane to be able to laugh […]
Dear Reader, The smile on my face in my Aspen Grove several years ago shows that I love living in Southern Colorado. What the smile does not show is that living in my hometown of Canon City, aka Klanyon City, has never been easy for me but my grandparents, parents, and several siblings are buried […]
Dear Reader, Today, I give thanks to all of my loved ones for putting up with me and my cantankerous irreverent unholy magic. ha. My great great grandmother, Abrana Quintana a Ute woman married a white man. Rev. Albert Jacobs a white man married a Ute Woman and became my ancestor. Juliana Quintana Jacobs Gomez […]
2015 Holy Cross Abbey, Canon City, Colorado October 28, 2021 Dear Reader, October blew in like a hot air balloon on LSD. Whoosh. My lawn chairs down the block at the neighbor’s hootenanny. My golden Aspen leaves blown to smithereens and my wildflower seeds scattered to the wind. Southern Colorado today feels like windy […]
September 23, 2021 Dear Reader, Woke up this morning and ventured out the backdoor to inspect my Chicana Garden. The hawk landed on my grape arbor and settled in amongst the concord grapes. I waited. The hawk flew low to the ground and swooped towards my tomatoes. I waited and watched. The hawk reappeared and […]
Me with amigo and fellow Latin Loco Motion Perform, Manuel Roybal, Sr. and our tour guide in Sicily near Mt. Etna, the tallest active volcano in Europe. I loved touring and performing on the military bases in 1995 between the Gulf War and the war that followed. The best days of my youth were spent […]