Therapist-in-Training, Former Journalist, Founder of Unmasking Therapy
Please subscribe to my newsletter to get writing news and updates. Last month, I decided to write about what it is really like to be a freelance writer these days… As part of my commitment to the #yearofwriting, my January 2017 Writer’s Life post included all of the hard numbers (meaning how many words I actually wrote…
Please subscribe to my newsletter to get writing news and updates. As you’ve probably noticed right above this sentence, there is something new in my life – and that is that my in-the-works memoir, Moscow Chica: How Growing Up Russian and Cuban Made Me an American, is now also being joined by a brand-new Medium blog (or…
Please subscribe to my newsletter to get writing news and updates. April 6, 1994 will forever be burned into my memory. That is the day my Cuban father, Russian mother, little brother and myself landed in Miami International Airport to seek a better life in America, to find our own version of the American Dream. The thing…
Please subscribe to my newsletter to get writing news and updates. Valentine’s Day isn’t for everyone. It’s a very specific, sort-of-made-up holiday that tends to favor those in love and fans of cheesy gestures of affection. I have never in my life been one of those people. Sure, I was a self-admitted hopeless romantic but I usually…
This essay is part of the #52essays2017 series focusing on my memoir, Moscow Chica: How Growing Up in Cuba and Russia Made Me an American. For more, please follow this publication and subscribe to my newsletter. When my family moved to America in 1994, everything seemed great. Until it wasn’t. About a year after we came here, my parents separated and divorced. And although…