It’s about more than the pandemic. — Respond to every call that excites your spirit. — Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi My eyes have seen a little bit of the world. I say “a little bit” to remind myself 35 is just a number. The real gauge of what my soul has experienced comes not with how many…

A Publication is Born Hola & Welcome to Little Love Lines! I am so excited to be typing this first entry and even more elated to have your eyes here! Creating this publication has been on my mind for the past few months. Birthing 3-L The backstory began over a decade ago…

What about becoming a nurse or a secretary? My mom’s comment was not an attempt to deflate the balloon of hope I’d been secretly carrying. She didn’t know. No one knew why, as a little girl I’d get so excited whenever we went to Kennedy airport to greet family members…

Moving past this is challenging. — I’m having trouble letting this go. The short version is that earlier this month one of my poems got published in Blank Cover Press. It was a big deal because it was the first time I’d gotten a pub [outside of Medium] to accept my poetry. Last Sunday they posted…

Everyone knows it perpetuates a sexist narrative. — I’m no longer accepting the things I cannot change…I’m changing the things I cannot accept. ~ Angela Yvonne Davis, Author, Academic, Activist, Feminist & Revolutionary The concept of beauty has existed since the beginning of womankind. Many across the globe agree that the 14th-century Egyptian Queen, Nefertiti epitomizes the term…

History sheds light on why the struggle hits home. — Cultural erasure: a practice in which a dominant culture attempts to negate, suppress, remove and, in effect, erase the culture [of another]. ~ Reference.com Puerto Ricans have been moving to the states for over a century. As a result of the Spanish-American-Cuban-Filipino War of 1898, Spain ceded La Isla del…