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by 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...
Read Moreby Brewing America | Dec 26, 2019 | alief, All, Bluebonnets, Family, Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo, Immigration, Retirement, Tailor shop, Vietnam | 0 |
Almost 45 years ago, the shores of Vũng Tàu were lined with dinghies. In them were people just trying to get to international waters, in hopes that other nations’ ships could bring them to safe refuge. When thousands of people...
Read Moreby Brewing America | Dec 24, 2019 | All, Autism, Christmas, Family, Home, Longreads, Michelle Girard, Special Needs | 0 |
The call came into the Coryell County sheriff’s department on the afternoon of June 4. A young man had been seen walking aimlessly up and down a stretch of U.S. 84, a couple miles east of the central Texas town of Gatesville. He...
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