My mother just left. She’s back in Miami, 900 miles away, and I am never sure when she’s coming back. I never know when my parents are coming back. I also never know how long they are staying when they are here — a Cuban thing, perhaps, that confounds non-Latino, American friends. “How long are […]

The following is my talk from the Latism 2011 panel titled Social Media Disruption: Finding Your Voice. It was my pleasure and honor to be with panel leader Julio Ricardo Varela of Latino Rebels, Lisa Stone, co-founder and CEO of Blogher and Catherine Connors of Her Bad Mother and Babble. If you attended, you’ll see some words and […]

This essay is part of the first #HablaTalk writing prompt series I am doing with Latina Bloggers Connect. They’re a way to inspire the writer, bring out the video star, and promote the community of talented voices. Check out the community and join in. A few weeks ago, I escaped on an overnight to Atlanta […]

Hallmark came to Nashville last week and I snagged an invite to a small gathering they had with local bloggers. It was mostly conversation about celebrating the little things in life, and getting to know a little bit more about how they go about creating the cards and products that help us express words and […]

Little more than two years ago, I wrote a post titled Looking for All the Latina Bloggers. The post was inspired by my attendance at a great conference that was sorely lacking in Latinas. I later determined, as best I could, that there were three of us out of a couple hundred. Que-que? Why so […]

So, the path to pro-blogging is through mucho advertising, paid blogging on somebody else’s site, becoming a consultant or the most popular among the mom bloggers, paid spokesmommying for a product or service. Of course, there’s always porn, but let’s pretend there isn’t. How to go pro is a popular topic at blogging conferences. It’s money […]

So, I was at Blissdom this weekend, and the aim was to soak up as much knowledge about the blogging, writing, social media, advertising, and blog whoring as possible. But, in truth, I had another agenda as my prime focus. To ask women who are focusing on making money online Just How in The Ever […]

My apologizies to email subscribers of the Boonie Blog. You are getting links to old posts and I have no idea how to fix it. It seems Feedburner gets un poco loco when you transfer a feed from one site to another and regurgitates the past. I have found several complaints in their help forum, […]

Last month, I wondered aloud where all the Latina bloggers are hiding and introduced a round-up that unveiled some awesomeness. Well, now some ladies in Atlanta are planning a gathering for women of color who blog. Blogalicious will be held in October. Atlanta is just four hours from Nashville, so I’m planning to be there. Ven […]

The Latina blogger link list up, down there to the right. You’ll notice my Cubana friends have their own separate category and so some of them are blog linked twice. Cubanitas, I may edit you out of the Latina list and leave you in your own little space. Not sure. But anyway, it has been […]