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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…
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…
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,…
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…
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….