Irina Gonzalez

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December 2018 Writer’s Life: Burnout month & yearly totals [#yearofwriting]

Posted on December 21, 2018February 24, 2019 by Irina Gonzalez

Please subscribe to my newsletter: Self-Care For Writers. Well… Here I am. It’s the end of the year and I need to tell you about how my writing goals and financial goals went for 2018. But first, I want to address something else: I have been feeling a lot of burnout this month. I am not exactly…

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Oh, look, we bought a house! (And I became super stressed out)

Posted on August 16, 2018February 24, 2019 by Irina Gonzalez

Please subscribe to my newsletter: Self-Care For Writers. It’s currently 5:40am on Thursday, August 16th, and I have been up since somewhere around 3 in the morning. This week has been terrible for my sleep and so, at the encouragement of my ever-loving, exceedingly patient, totally supportive husband Adam, I decided it was time to write about…

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July 2018 Writer’s Life: Writing about recovery… and more [#yearofwriting]

Posted on July 31, 2018February 22, 2019 by Irina Gonzalez

Please subscribe to my newsletter: Self-Care For Writers. Last month, I finally hit my goal of making $5k a month… And I am thrilled that this month was even better. It was a difficult month, however. Despite my financial goals, I want to pause and acknowledge that financial success doesn’t necessarily mean that things are going fantastically…

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Why I’m quitting my pro-immigration memoir (Moscow Chica) for now

Posted on June 19, 2018February 22, 2019 by Irina Gonzalez

Please subscribe to my newsletter: Self-Care For Writers. Last year, one of my major writing goals was to write the book proposal for my pro-immigration memoir on being half-Russian, half-Cuban, and ALL American. The name of the book is Moscow Chica: How Growing Up in Russia and Cuba Made Me an American and I’ve been talking about writing…

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The Robin Williams (Anthony Bourdain) Tragedy Affects Us All

Posted on June 8, 2018June 8, 2018 by Irina Gonzalez

Note: This is a story that was written for and published on Latina.com in August 2014. However, the site has since shut down and my story has disappeared… But the internet gods allowed me to find it in its entirety, so I am re-posting it here since a) I feel very strongly about this topic & b) this…

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Irina Gonzalez is a journalist, editor, and sober bisexual Latina mom with ADHD. She is the author of the Parenting in Hard Mode newsletter—for those of us who are raising social justice-minded families and getting real about mental health for parents navigating life on the difficult setting. She is also working on an upcoming book on impactful Latinx Americans with The Quarto Publishing Group.

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