How Cow Brains, My Love Of Food Helped Me Find “The One”
Mary Mata September 28, 2011
I love food to a ludicrous degree. I think this may because I grew up poor and was raised to truly respect it. Sometimes I eat things so delicious that […]
Bien Hecho: Latina Boxers Eye The 2012 Olympics
Mary Mata September 27, 2011
As a Latina who enjoys boxing and martial arts in general myself, I have to give mad props to two Latina boxers recently featured on CNN. Cristina Cruz of New […]
The Heavenly Innocence Of My Son’s Guesses At My Age
Mary Mata
I love the age of innocence and candor of a child. Throughout his short life, my son has only guessed at my age using the limited information he has acquired about […]
Reimagining The West In The Novel “Ocotillo Dreams”
Mary Mata
On Saturday the September 17, the Autry Museum in Los Angeles hosted a book talk for Melinda Palacio’s new novel, Ocotillo Dreams (Bilingual Review Press, 2011). If you are not […]