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by Brewing America | Jun 17, 2021 | All, Family, san antonio, State of Mind | 0 |
In her childhood on San Antonio’s West Side, Cat Cardenas grew up hearing fantastical stories about her grandfather: encounters with the devil and rattlesnakes, and the lion that lived, for a while, in his home. Cat tells his...
Read Moreby Brewing America | Jan 22, 2021 | All, Family, Holidays, Playing cards, rio grande valley, Tejano | 0 |
I still remember the spell by rote. To regain the affections of a loved one who has left you, you must first fill a bowl with holy water. Then gently suspend a flower, either a doradilla or flor de peña—the fronded spikemoss...
Read Moreby Brewing America | Dec 23, 2020 | All, Autism, Catholicism, Essay, Family, The Culture | 0 |
My sister and I were raised Catholic, but after a few early years enrolled at a school called Sacred Heart, I stopped attending mass every week. Our family eased into a lifestyle some might call “lapsed.” By 2009, when I left...
Read Moreby Brewing America | Dec 1, 2020 | All, Family, Holiday, Holiday lights, Travel | 0 |
Long-distance travel and kissing strangers under the mistletoe may be on hold in 2020, but Texas still knows how to show up for the most wonderful time of the year. Communities across the state have modified traditional...
Read Moreby Brewing America | Jun 29, 2020 | Afro-Latinos, All, Anti black racism, Black Lives Matter, Family, Latinos, Media | 0 |
Scroll through Tally Dilbert’s Instagram or TikTok accounts, and you’ll get a small taste of her life as an Afro-Latina blogger in Texas. Between posts highlighting her distinctive sense of fashion, her beauty regimen, and photo...
Read Moreby Brewing America | Jun 25, 2020 | All, EL PASO, Family, Home, Immigration, The Culture, west texas | 0 |
On a blisteringly hot mid-July day nearly thirty years ago, as my parents walked down the jet bridge at the El Paso International Airport, they heard the faint notes of a mariachi tune playing in the distance. After rounding the...
Read Moreby Brewing America | Jun 17, 2020 | All, Black Lives Matter, Children, coronavirus, Family, George Floyd | 0 |
I am not in the habit of lying to my children. When my daughter was four, I told her that Santa Claus wasn’t real. Neither was the tooth fairy. She responded: “Then who is gonna give me my money?” She has always been able to...
Read Moreby Brewing America | Jun 16, 2020 | All, coronavirus, Family | 0 |
My mom passed away on May 4. It wasn’t COVID-19. Complications of complications from the cancer that she was cured of nearly ten years earlier compounded in her body until she just needed to rest. She died in the hospital, and...
Read Moreby Brewing America | Apr 16, 2020 | All, coronavirus, Family, Parenting, Potty training, Quarantine | 0 |
The training potty, pink with a white-colored seat, has sat unused in the corner of our bedroom for a couple of years. I don’t remember if we bought the toilet, which has a silver handle that makes a flushing sound when pressed....
Read Moreby Brewing America | Apr 10, 2020 | All, coronavirus, Family, Family parade, Herminia Valdez, Quarantine, san antonio | 0 |
WHO: 83-year-old Herminia Valdez and the whole Valdez clan. WHAT: A family parade in the middle of a quarantine. WHERE: San Antonio’s West Side. WHY IT’S SO GREAT: A pandemic is no match for a Mexican family. When 83-year-old...
Read Moreby Brewing America | Apr 7, 2020 | All, coronavirus, Family, Uncategorized | 0 |
A new coronavirus appeared in Wuhan and now I’m getting divorced. That thought—one that makes me feel like I could laugh or cry—keeps echoing in my head. Probably because my brain is trying to understand how something so absurd...
Read Moreby Brewing America | Apr 2, 2020 | All, coronavirus, Family | 0 |
I saw my mom right before I went to New York to visit my youngest daughter, on March 4. By the time I got back, I was pretty sick. I went to the hospital about five to six days later and got the results about four days after...
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