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I Believe In Love, Just Not Weddings

Mary Mata August 24, 2011

I’ve always wondered if little girls really fantasize about their wedding day. I’ve never known a woman who actually did this. When I was a little girl, I mostly fantasized […]

Learning To Clean The Beans: A Latino Rite Of Passage

Mary Mata

Book Review: “A Visit from the Goon Squad”

Mary Mata August 23, 2011

America Has A New Hero, And He’s Undocumented

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This is a major disruption. Just when you thought you had the immigration issue sorted, boxed, wrapped and tidy, an undocumented worker does something heroic. Now we have to re-sort everything. It happened […]

Experiences Of Latino Vietnam Veterans In New Documentary

Mary Mata August 22, 2011

A new documentary chronicles the experiences of several Latino Vietnam veterans, who made up 20% of the casualties in that war but were only 10% of the U.S. population at […]

Alcoholism: The Sleeping Dragon In The Living Room

Mary Mata

In most families it is customary that if there is a serious problem within the family, or anyone has any emotional dysfunction, it must remain hidden from everyone else. The […]

Happy Friday From Lydia Mendoza!

Mary Mata August 19, 2011

I love Lydia Mendoza because, even in the 1930s recordings I first heard of her music, she’s got sass. She ain’t takin’ nothin’ from nobody and she’s going to let […]