Tag: Guatemala
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Food Time Travel
Our friends came over the other night with take out from one of our favorite places here in Charlotte. It’s a Mexican place that has fresh-made tortillas, great salsas, and a butchery in the back that also has prepared meats. My friend, Renata, had taken her girls with her to pick up the meal. She…
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Mami’s Magic
I DREAMT ABOUT HER LAST NIGHT. WE WERE VISITING A COLLEGE I WANTED TO GO TO. I WAS YOUNGER, SHE WAS YOUNGER AND WE WERE HAPPY AND HEALTHY. Walking the campus, I noticed a water spigot that had been left running and was causing some water to pool in a parking lot. “Watch this,” I…
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Finding Home
The waiting room of the US embassy in Guatemala holds the fate of two families.
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My Family’s Immigration Stories
Today, at a long red light, I’m scrolling Facebook and I see the headline, “Woman Ran Over Girl Because She was ‘A Mexican’, in the New York Times. I was coming back from picking up a Christmas present for my husband, listening to the Holly station on the radio, singing along to the music. But…
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