Dispatches from a Cultural Guerrillera
Deborah Méndez Wilson
- Location
- Denver Metro Area, Colorado, USA
- Birthday
- August 24
- Title
- Freelance Writer, Editor
- Company
- Colorín Colorado Communications
- Bio
- I'm a fifth-generation Coloradan whose Hispanic/American Indian family roots run hundreds of years deep in the U.S. Southwest. I am a Westerner, through and through, and can't imagine living anywhere else in the United States. The Colorado/New Mexico territory is my ancestral homeland.
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I am a mother of two and grandmother of one, but don't expect me to conform to anachronistic, enshrined stereotypes of what a woman is supposed to be or do in the autumn of her life.
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I am a professionally trained journalist who loves to blog, too. I earned my 10,000 hours while working as a daily journalist, and unabashedly worship at the altar of English.
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Though English is my native language and I adore it, I am fluent in Spanish because I lived in South America for a decade, and revel in the vibrant, haunting beauty of Castilian and Latin American cultures, histories and dialects. ¡Que viva el Español!
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MY RECENT POSTS
- Adiós, Carlos
May 16, 2012 12:26AM - Dancing Around Her Body
May 14, 2012 04:13PM - Notes from a Gutterreader
May 09, 2012 06:38PM - Post-Boy Feminism
May 07, 2012 01:58PM - American Me
April 30, 2012 12:26PM
MY RECENT COMMENTS
- “Thanks for this,
Estéban. And, not to
sound shallow,
BUT look how
cute you…”
9:03PM - “Woo-hoo! Touché.
Well done!
¡Eso!
¡Adelante!
(That's "for…”
9:00PM - “What a bizarre campaign.
That's all ...”
May 25, 2012 06:34PM - “Have you read "Final
Salute" by Jim Sheeler? He won
the
Pulitzer
Prize…”
May 25, 2012 06:31PM - “Just got my new Rolling
Stone magazine and noticed
this
headline, "The
Billi…”
May 25, 2012 06:18PM
Deborah Méndez Wilson's Links
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Mexican novelist, essayist, diplomat and social commentator, the formidable Carlos Fuentes (Wikepedia Photo).
He said he wrote to keep from dying, but in the end he couldn’t strike death from his opus on life.
Carlos Fuentes, the inimitable Mexican novelist, essayist, diplomat a/… Read full post »
Dancing Around Her Body
Windsurfing (Public Domain Photo).
Water was to blame for two of my brushes with death.
Our neighborhood was struck by a flash flood in 1963, and we grabbed our valuables and headed to higher ground. All I took with me was the life-size walking doll/… Read full post »
Notes from a Gutterreader
It was 1970, and I was walking home from middle school when I spotted a glossy magazine page in the gutter.
It wasn't crumpled in a ball or tattered, but resting flat and nearly intact, just waiting for an innocent 13-year-old girl to find it.
When I saw what… Read full post »
My
son, Daniel, playing his beloved electric guitar two years ago at
age 12.
My son’s little pink hand rose from the other side of the green surgical sheet that separated us, looking like a dahlia sprouting from my body that Monday after Mother’s Day in 1998.… Read full post »
New Spain in 1819 (Google Images).
Cinco de Mayo rolls around every year, and a bizarre claim crops up in news stories, political speeches, and in schools: Hispanics are “the newest immigrants” to arrive in the United States of America. ... Really?
Armed
strikers near Trinidad, Colo, c. 1914, during the Colorado
Coalfield Wars. Photo courtesy of the Denver Public Library,
Western History Collection. All Rights Reserved.
In Colorado, April 20 is marked for one of two reasons. Thousands of people gather on college campuses and in public p… Read full post »
(Photo courtesy of CocinaGratis.net)
Several years ago I was getting ready for work when my then-7-year-old son began a conversation with me I will never forget.
"Mom?"
"Aha," I responded as I glopped thick velvet-black mascara on my lashes—my war paint—with my mouth wide op… Read full post »
Penélope Cruz in espadrilles, carrying a red tote, and wearing hoops in the 1992 Spanish film "Jamón, Jamón."
When I was detained for my "petty crime," I was sitting on a packed bus, heading south from Caracas to Ciudad Guayana, which is some ni… Read full post »
Cycling for My Life
My Orbea Aqua Dama
HIGHLANDS RANCH, Colo. - All along, it’s been cycling that has propelled me through the crazy world we live in. My bikes were there for me as I pedaled through every stage of my life. They have been the unmitigated catalysts of change, the democratic… Read full post »
I don’t know how to make chilaquiles, but I do know how to make a mean Southwestern green chile. I might seem like a tragic, little pocha to some, but I know who I am.
My Grandparents, Circa 1920s, Trinidad, Colo.
HIGHLANDS RANCH, Colo. - “You don’t know how to ma… Read full post »
The Runaway and the Electric Typewriter
I'm not a neo-Luddite. I love technology. But how do I explain my first analog love to a boy who is a digital native?
HIGHLANDS RANCH, Colo. - "What's that clacking noise?" I asked my 13-year-old son a few days ago.
"It's just an app on my iPod,… Read full post »
Losing My Nazi Friend
Over clumps of dry dirt
Loosened in our earthen puzzle,
We walk,
over cracked soil,
each to her own.
I know you, pretty blond girl,
My best friend.
You snap your heels,
Raise your arm,
"Heil Hitler!"
You say aloud.
I'm twelve, but I've already
Internalized… Read full post »
Roly Poly
The recent, tragic murder of a 7-year-old Georgia girl has me remembering another case from the 1960s that has haunted me for decades, and the day I trusted a stranger.
HIGHLANDS RANCH, Colo. – We called it a raspberry tree, but I still don’t know its… Read full post »
HIGHLANDS RANCH, Colo. – It happened in that eerie, dreamlike space after the Twin Towers collapsed.
People were shuffling through downtown San Diego in a daze, and kept glancing up at the city’s gleaming Pan-Pacific high-rises, prepared to cower or run if airplanes suddenly began tearing
… Read full post »
It’s a must-see stop for presidents, celebrities, writers and book lovers of every stripe. The Tattered Cover, founded by a fierce defender of free expression, literacy, and readers' rights, is one of the nation's most renowned bookstores, and a beloved Colorado tradition.
HIGHLANDS RAN… Read full post »
Please Come Home for Christmas. The Eagles song reminded Mom of me, her long-lost first born, her prodigal daughter. It took a Colorado Christmas to show me how the mother-daughter bond can transcend time, space and nature’s whims.
HIGHLANDS RANCH, Colo. – My mother was… Read full post »
HIGHLANDS RANCH, Colo. – It’s the… Read full post »
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