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Published Essays
July 5, 2010
Between the Pages
The Millions
Being a reader is like playing tricks with time. You turn the page of the fictional story while an hour of your own passes. The characters breathe, laugh and cry, and so do you. When you finish their tale, you close the book and set it aside, dreaming of their ever-after, while stepping out into yours.
June 22, 2010
Hope Fires in the Desert
The Heart is Not a Size Blog
Across the border in winter, Juarez families burn trash to keep warm. Smoke rises liked dirty cotton candy spun heavenward in hot plumes. Driving around the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP), you smell it before you see it. Ripe and burnt, it assaults. You wriggle your nose, hold your breath, circulate your car fan and press on the gas pedal to get away, pass the unpleasantness.
May 13, 2010
V: Lizard Aliens as a Social Reminder
The Millions
The latest TV hit: a 2010 sci-fi remake of a 1980s sci-fi hit, itself an adaptation of a 1935 novel warning against the growing threat of fascism. We live in a world where history repeats itself; where old ideas cloak themselves in various contemporary skins and pretty packages for each budding generation.
April 22, 2010
The Baby-Sitters Club is Back, Baby!
The Millions
Given the current YA vampire and fantasy craze, I wonder if novels staked in the normal can find the ardent following they did with my generation. Will young readers with an acutely developed taste for bloody bites and wizard wands be captivated by the story of industrious teenagers facing the universal travails of growing up?
February 26, 2010
Joy of Cooking: A Novel Experience
The Millions
The truth is, I read cookbooks like novels. Cover to cover, page by page, the dedication, the acknowledgments, the indexes: I devour everything.
May 20, 2009
Pequeño Germany, U.S.A.
El Paso Magazine
The thriving German community on the Tex-Mex border is a delightful surprise, especially for a girl who lived in Deutschland as a child. Here I spotlight my time with the German locals at Marina's German Bakery in El Paso.
Featured Author Interviews
July/August 2009
Featured author interview with Faith, Hope and Fiction.com
September 2009
Featured author interview with El Paso Magazine
September/October 2009
Featured author interview with AltDaily.com
October 20, 2009
The National Day on Writing
Sponsored by the NCTE
Listen to me chat about writing here
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