Elenamary

I am constantly shocked by the changes in my city and state. The change has been tremendous from the time back when my family got excited that Meijer grocery was selling chili peppers to today when I saw it. I stopped at a gas station on my way to work this morning, a gas [...]

You make me feel ashamed of being an American, A Mexican-American, the daughter of an immigrant, of being a human like you.
Sadly, I didn’t realize until 2003, after reading the Texas Clemency Memos article in Atlantic Montly, just how bad you could be.
You have had no regard for basic human rights let alone civil rights.  [...]

i regret my previous post.  i at first was going to take it down.  but i guess the point of a personal blog (for me) is to watch how i evolve…and damn i hope i evolve from that previous post.  i regret it deeply, and apologize.  it was cruel and shallow.
love to the world,
elenamary

I am enjoying a smidgen of Schadenfreude and while I do feel a bit guilty the pleasure outweighs the guilt.
I used to get malicious messages posted to different online accounts I had.   Usually the insults were about my physical appearance.  I was never able to imagine who had so much anger towards me.  Recently, [...]

Today I finished ¡Yo! by Julia Alvarez. I was first introduced to her by my Latino Studies professor Dr. Ellen Gil-Gomez. She was one of those professors who will never really know how much of an influence she had on me. Back to ¡Yo!. When I first began to [...]

Year-round Schools Don’t Boost Learning, Study Finds
Science Daily (press release) - USA
A sociologist at Ohio State University found that, over a full year, math and reading test scores improved about the same amount for children in year-round schools as they did for students whose schools followed a traditional nine-month calendar.
Children attending year-round schools were mostly [...]