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Women 8

 

Gota de Leche: A Drop of Milk is Life

By Marivir R. Montebon   It took my grandmother’s generation 30 years to see a suffrage law passed, but after the first election of women, the Japanese came.  We had to pick up the pieces and begin again.  Taking the lesson from triathletes, you go through the whole length, and then again, until you are […]

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Let Us Join This Journey!

By Sylvia Hubilla Austin, Texas “The Journey of a Brown Girl.” That is the title of an upcoming stage production. The title raised my eyebrows and peaked my interest. The use of the color of the skin, stirs some emotion and concern about being politically correct whenever the topic is about race. If it was intentional, […]

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MILLY SILVA: Latina Steps Up for Women Representation

By Marivir R. Montebon Metropark, New Jersey — “I am just a labor leader stepping forward. It is difficult, but I am stepping forward,” Milly Silva said with refreshing note of confidence. At 42, she runs half the ticket of the Bouno-Silva of the Democratic Party against the incumbent New Jersey governor Chris Christie and […]

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In My Terms

By Marivir R. Montebon New York City My life, in my terms. This is a long time coming. Why does it take a long time for a woman to think of herself, that by loving and respecting herself first, she becomes happier in loving others? Studies show that women almost always think of themselves last. […]

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Women’s Month: Did You Know that the First Computer was a Woman?

By Marivir R. Montebon   New York City — The first computers were not machines, they were women. And they were important as the soldiers who won World War II for America to become the world’s dominant world power. However, recognizing women’s contributions took a very long time. It took 67 years for women mathematicians […]

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Teresa B. Fernandez: Pioneering to End Domestic Violence

By Marivir R. Montebon     “At one time, a mother complained that her husband had broken all her trays of eggs when he was drunk. Another husband had stolen his wife’s income from peanut vending. These realities have opened my eyes to the fact that domestic violence has a lot to do with the […]

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On Women’s Month: NO LOOKING BACK

By Sylvia Hubilla Round Rock, Texas Down on her knees, Dolores closes the lid of the last huge box with packing tape. She feels so alone and very tired. She surveys several boxes in varying sizes. How do you pack memories of 35 years in boxes like so much junk? Do you label some “HAPPY” […]

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Merly Barrete Barlaan: Leadership from the Heart

By Marivir R. Montebon Most of the time, the petite Merly Christina Barrete Barlaan is thinking and doing things either for her children or newly established school. Whether in the kitchen preparing food for children Hyo Won, Shin Won, Jasmine, and Lily Rose, or in her basement office doing some writing work in Elizabeth, New […]

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