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Free Writing Workshops at Poe Visitors Center in Bronx, NY

This Spring I’m honored to join Latina 50 Plus “Café Fuerte Mujeres Fuertes” Writing Workshop series. “Writing to My Ancestors” is a workshop focused on the lessons learned and passed on to us by our Elders: Grandmothers, Godmothers, Aunts, Mentors. How have these powerful figures influenced and nurtured us? What life experiences or lessons have they passed on that we have instilled in our daily lives?

Join us for a series of FREE writing workshops at Poe Center in the Bronx with writers:

Theresa Varela @theresavarelaauthor – March 14

Wendy Angulo @mujer_de_calidad – April 11

Maria Aponte – @latina50plus April 18

This is an inter generational workshop to honor our ancestors and build our legacies. All are welcomed to join us!

Short Story in Peinate: Hair Battles Between Mothers & Daughters

Hoisted onto the cosmetology throne at Blanca’s Beauty Salon on Fifth Avenue, I was still so short that they’d added a wooden slab on the seat for me to reach the mirror. My mother hovered at my side. Blanca, a large buxom woman whose blond hair was coifed into a French roll, lopped my braid off with a pair of sharp scissors.

SNIP

I cried and everybody else in the room clapped. Through my tears in the mirror, I saw Blanca hand my braid over to my mother …

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