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Tag: 52essays2017

An update to my Writing Goals for 2017 [#yearofwriting]

Posted on October 12, 2017January 16, 2018 by Irina Gonzalez

Please subscribe to my newsletter to get writing news and updates. When 2017 started, I deemed this my #yearofwriting and gave myself some serious writing career goals for the year. I created a basic business plan, hired a writing coach to take my career to the next level (which she did), organized my published clips and planned to…

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Essay 2: The Double Commie [#52essays2017]

Posted on January 13, 2017June 11, 2017 by Irina Gonzalez

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. I had this “friend” in middle and high school who used to love to make fun of my heritage. Year after year, the words “double commie” came out…

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Essay 1: The Day I Became an
American [#52essays2017]

Posted on January 6, 2017June 11, 2017 by Irina Gonzalez

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. My grandfather shook me awake suddenly. My eyes slowly opened, feeling groggy and tired from our overnight flight. It was five in the afternoon there, in the suburbs of Moscow,…

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7 Fearless things I’m doing for my writing career in 2017 [#yearofwriting]

Posted on January 1, 2017January 16, 2018 by Irina Gonzalez

Please subscribe to my newsletter to get writing news and updates. It’s the start of a new year and, as always, that has me (and everyone else in the world I suppose) thinking about what this year will bring. It’s no stretch to say that 2016 wasn’t everyone’s favorite year. Despite some personal successes, I know that…

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Here is exactly why I’m signing up for the #52essays2017 challenge

Posted on December 30, 2016June 11, 2017 by Irina Gonzalez

Please subscribe to my newsletter to get writing news and updates. I love a good challenge. I think that’s been sufficiently demonstrated this year alone when I decided to start writing for my Map Your 30s project and even signed up to write every single day during the month of July. The only problem? I suck at keeping up with them….

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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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