Remembering Tia Vilma
My Tia Vilma passed away last week. Since learning of the news, I've been thinking about how out of all the tias and tios I've been reunited with, I saw her the most, and yet, I also feel like I hardly know her.
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When Worlds Collide: Meeting another Salvadoran at the summer camp I attended for 14 years.
A few weeks ago, I met this amazing human, Priscila, who is also from El Salvador 🇸🇻 and is working at the summer camp I went to for 14 years. I’m not entirely sure why but there's something about knowing someone from El Salvador is working at camp that puts a huge smile on my face.
Advice to my teenage self
I was only 16 when I met my birth family and didn’t yet understand the long-lasting impact that event would have on my life. So, as I look back at the past 20 years or so, I think about what advice I might give my younger self.
Starting the Search: My Advice to Salvadoran Adoptees
I often get asked for advice on searching for your birth family, so I created this page to share all of the information I have on the subject.
So you've set a New Years' resolution, great, but what is your system?
It’s that time of the year again when we all set New Years Resolutions. I wanted to share a different approach to resolutions that works with your brain and doesn’t make you feel like a failure. I discovered this approach a few months ago and have a lot of success using it in my own life.
You are not a failure
Throughout my life I have failed. I have failed so many times, in so many different ways. Often, it seemed like the things that I struggled with came so easily to others. There can be immense pressure to succeed. To live up to the expectations of others and ourselves. Whenever
Taste, execution, and resilience. The three parts to making our art.
Studying a wide range of artists and entrepreneurs led me to identify three themes that are essential to making “art.” They are taste, execution, and resilience.
Misfit Con: A Home for Dreams, Doers, and Makers
Memories of summer camp Growing up, my brother and I would spend our summers at Camp Frank A. Day. Those days spent on the shores of Quacumquasitt were some of the best days of my life. What I loved most about camp was the people. You really got to know
Why you should support (and share) your friend’s work
I noticed something recently. People, for the most part, don’t share their friends’ “work.” By work I don’t mean 9-to-5 day job type stuff, I mean their passion projects. But why is that?
The Paradox of Not, Not Working
Not too long ago I realized that there are plenty of times when I'm not actively working, but I'm not exactly disengaged either. But I struggled with what to make of these activities in between working and not working.