This week, our spring break, René, Minal, and I boarded a flight to Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, which is just two hours away from Los Angeles. When we landed in...
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06 Mar, 2018
revisiting the border…
06 Mar, 2018
the Texas-Mexico fence at Old Hidalgo Pumphouse Last week, I dipped into the Rio Grande Valley for 24-hours to participate in an arts and literature festival. The morning after...
Read more06 Mar, 2015
my challenge is how to move and yet make sure the children get their time with their grandmothers…
06 Mar, 2015
After I close out a meeting with Ana Mac Naught, Community Developer at Baker Ripley Neighborhood Center — where I’ve been running a women’s workshop and am now planning...
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home is a space that I create for myself and not one that’s defined for me …
02 Jan, 2015
Filmmaker Yunuen Perez Vertti drops by my Houston house to eat a meal prepared by my mother. A native of Mexico City, Yunuen lived for a decade in Houston...
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