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A (Wise) Latina Meets THE Wise Latina
October 14, 2011
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Finally. I had the opportunity to meet HER. U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor, the original “Wise Latina,” as U.S. Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar noted, not at “our” Trader Joe’s (despite hours spent “studying” the sugar content Read More...
The Sport of Women: TWLC’s Viviana Hurtado on NPR’s Tell Me More with Michel Martin
October 13, 2011
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One fellow recently filed a reclamo, electronically: Fellow: “You…are so chatty on the WLC whereas your e-mails are positively laconic. I can’t even read between the lines because they only fit on one line! Will the real Viviana please stand Read More...
In HuffPo Latino Voices: “The Gran Desencanto”
September 29, 2011
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I still have not invented the gadget that will keep Yellow from shedding his entire coat even though I just brushed him (I still don’t know how he is not bald although to be clear, I nor the Golden, are Read More...
6 Minute Career Climb: Claim Your Past to Create Your Future
September 23, 2011
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Her name is Deborah Rosado Shaw, not Barrington Harrington Carrington, III (pronounced, the thuuuuuuuhhhhhddddd). She was born and raised not in the Hamptons, but in Spanish Harlem and the South Bronx, some of the toughest and poorest neighborhoods in the Read More...
Is Prez Obama Anti-Woman? TWLC’s Viviana Hurtado Answers on NPR’s “Tell Me More with Michel Martin”
September 22, 2011
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Some things just don’t go together. Al Gore and the Macarena. Kim Kardashian and authenticity. President Obama and being “Anti-Woman.” That’s just one of the chismes in Pulitzer-prize winning columnist Ron Suskind’s book, Confidence Men: Wall Street, Washington, and the Education of Read More...
JLo, Eva Longoria, Sofía Vergara & Naya Rivera: Blog Challenge Re-do
September 19, 2011
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The fabulous Bren Herrera of Flanboyant Eats issued a challenge: re-write your first blog post to win a Blogalicious conference pass. The point is to show the growth of a blogger: her writing, her voice, and her brand. What a Read More...
HuffPo Latino Voices: Vistas: Mastering Your Origins
September 16, 2011
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This week Huffington Post Latino Voices asked me to answer the question: “Which is the one Latino cultural trait you most want to see preserved and handed down to future generations?” My answer exists in dialogue with those of six other Read More...
TWLC’s Viviana Hurtado “Speaky the Spanish” on NPR’s “Tell Me More with Michel Martin”
September 16, 2011
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I did the sign of the cross–en el nombre del Padre, del Hijo y del Espíritu Santo–and prayed that Manhattan would not break off and sink into the Atlantic Ocean, that my house in DC would not be ripped from Read More...