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Wedding Bells or Warning Bells?

Have you thought about getting married (in general or to the one you’re with)? When you think about it do you get excited? Do  you get scared that you’ll be alone for the rest of your life? Do you cringe at the thought of having to someday make a choice?  Well, no matter what state [ READ MORE ]

Breaking Through

We’re breaking through (whoa!) We’re breaking through (we’re breaking through!) I feel so much energy at this very moment. I just feel so hungry and thirsty for knowledge and enlightenment. I can’t believe I’m actually feeling this but this Lenten season is actually something I was really excited about. I was eager for the opportunity [ READ MORE ]

Latinas Redefining Success: The Virtual You

Have you seen blogs, tweets or facebook photos, videos, status updates that: make your eyebrows perk up because they’re so inappropriate, disgusting or mind-boggling put way too much personal business out there scream vengeance are so provocative you double-check to make sure you’re on the right website show just how immature, unprofessional or irrational people [ READ MORE ]

Ut Prosim &Haiti

When I first prepared for my alternative spring break mission trip to Haiti in March 2008, I remember the older students talking about their previous trips and referring to previous missionaries.  One of those students was Allison.  She’s a Hokie. After going on a mission trip through the Catholic Campus Ministry at Virginia Tech, she [ READ MORE ]

Becoming a man

What does it mean to be a man? This is a question that will undoubtedly galvanize debate among men and women in all nations, but I think thoughts and words are not sufficient to answer this question.  I just read an amazing feature in yesterday’s front page of the Sports section in The Washington Post headlined [ READ MORE ]

I’m addicted…

Latinas Leading Tomorrow (LLT) is an organization designed to promote positive Latina identity and  empowerment through leadership skills. LLT helps Arlington County teens recognize their own leadership capacities and their potential impact on the Latino community and beyond. I was recently accepted as an Advisory Board Member of LLT and tonight I had the pleasure [ READ MORE ]

Chasing the Dream

“She had many hopes and dreams coming to the United States and some of them were shattered.” Marta is a refugee who came to the U.S. with her mother.  She ended up suing her own mother for negligence, abuse, and abandonment and was allowed to stay in the U.S.  I saw her say, “I just [ READ MORE ]

Meeting the Garcías

García is one of the 10 most common last names in the U.S. Why? Latinos continue to grow in the U.S. and are currently the largest minority and soon to be the majority around 2030.  That means we have about 20 years to keep up with this booming population.  How do we understand them? How [ READ MORE ]

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