Dispatches from a Cultural Guerrillera
De músico, poeta y loco todos tenemos un poco.
Deborah Méndez Wilson
- Location
- Denver Metro Area, Colorado, USA
- Birthday
- August 24
- Title
- Journalist/Periodista
- Company
- Colorín Colorado Communications
- Bio
- I'm a fifth-generation Coloradan whose Spanish/Pueblo 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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Follow me on Twitter: @DebMendezWilson
MY RECENT POSTS
- American Me on Cinco de Mayo
(Repost)
May 03, 2013 12:12AM - Remembering Ludlow 99 Years
Later (Repost)
April 20, 2013 09:56PM - Viva César
March 31, 2013 04:48AM - The Kiss
March 27, 2013 02:47AM - Water on My Mind
March 22, 2013 02:42AM
MY RECENT COMMENTS
- “Just Thinking: So sweet!
We had fun at the Cinco de
Mayo
celebration in Denver.
I…”
May 09, 2013 09:32PM - “OnIslandTime: Thank
you!
Mary! So nice to
"see" you. Thank
you!
Myriad:
I…”
May 08, 2013 12:54AM - “Donegal: And the Spanish
came in wave after wave after
their
initial contact
with…”
May 05, 2013 11:46PM - “Kosher: The Irish are
recent immigrants compared
to
Hispanics. I can't help but
s…”
May 04, 2013 10:44PM - “Thank you all for your
wonderful messages. I just
can't bring
myself not to
honor…”
April 21, 2013 03:03PM
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- The Atlantic
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- The Economist
- Science
- NEJM
- JAMA
- PNAS
- Discover
- Nature
- Scientific American
- Rolling Stone
- NPR
- New York Times
- Editor & Publisher
- National Association of Hispanic Journalists
- Society of Professional Journalists
- Mother Jones
- American Journalism Review
- The Chronicle of Higher Education
- The Denver Post
- Associated Press
- Contacto Latino
May 09, 2013 09:32PM
“Just Thinking: So sweet! We had fun at the Cinco de Mayo celebration in Denver. I actually had to work at my company's public outreach booth. I had to…”
About: American Me on Cinco de Mayo (Repost)
“Just Thinking: So sweet! We had fun at the Cinco de Mayo celebration in Denver. I actually had to work at my company's public outreach booth. I had to…”
About: American Me on Cinco de Mayo (Repost)
May 08, 2013 12:54AM
“OnIslandTime: Thank you! Mary! So nice to "see" you. Thank you! Myriad: I've said the same thing for years. Call it the real Moctezuma's reveng…”
About: American Me on Cinco de Mayo (Repost)
“OnIslandTime: Thank you! Mary! So nice to "see" you. Thank you! Myriad: I've said the same thing for years. Call it the real Moctezuma's reveng…”
About: American Me on Cinco de Mayo (Repost)
May 05, 2013 11:46PM
“Donegal: And the Spanish came in wave after wave after their initial contact with the Aztecs (Cortés) and Inca (Pizarro). It's not like there we…”
About: American Me on Cinco de Mayo (Repost)
“Donegal: And the Spanish came in wave after wave after their initial contact with the Aztecs (Cortés) and Inca (Pizarro). It's not like there we…”
About: American Me on Cinco de Mayo (Repost)
May 04, 2013 10:44PM
“Kosher: The Irish are recent immigrants compared to Hispanics. I can't help but see U.S. history through the lens of my Native American and Spanish col…”
About: American Me on Cinco de Mayo (Repost)
“Kosher: The Irish are recent immigrants compared to Hispanics. I can't help but see U.S. history through the lens of my Native American and Spanish col…”
About: American Me on Cinco de Mayo (Repost)
April 21, 2013 03:03PM
“Thank you all for your wonderful messages. I just can't bring myself not to honor the miners and families who sacrificed so much for all of us. May the…”
About: Remembering Ludlow 99 Years Later (Repost)
“Thank you all for your wonderful messages. I just can't bring myself not to honor the miners and families who sacrificed so much for all of us. May the…”
About: Remembering Ludlow 99 Years Later (Repost)
April 03, 2013 07:33PM
“Thanks, everyone, for your nice comments. I truly appreciate them.”
About: Viva César
“Thanks, everyone, for your nice comments. I truly appreciate them.”
About: Viva César
March 31, 2013 12:23PM
“Thanks, everyone, for your comments. Wish I could respond to each and every one of you, but today is Easter, too, and my grandson is going nuts with hi…”
About: Viva César
“Thanks, everyone, for your comments. Wish I could respond to each and every one of you, but today is Easter, too, and my grandson is going nuts with hi…”
About: Viva César
March 31, 2013 04:15AM
“I think the more important questions are: --Why do so many women pour so much of themselves into relationships with men? --Why can't women just accept th…”
About: He Said He Loved Me: the Psychology Behind Partner Violence
“I think the more important questions are: --Why do so many women pour so much of themselves into relationships with men? --Why can't women just accept th…”
About: He Said He Loved Me: the Psychology Behind Partner Violence
March 31, 2013 04:14AM
“I think the more important questions are: --Why do so many women pour so much of themselves into relationships with men? --Why can't women just accept th…”
About: He Said He Loved Me: the Psychology Behind Partner Violence
“I think the more important questions are: --Why do so many women pour so much of themselves into relationships with men? --Why can't women just accept th…”
About: He Said He Loved Me: the Psychology Behind Partner Violence
March 31, 2013 04:08AM
“Sounds like a glib comment by a trust-fund baby.”
About: A quote I don't fully understand, anyone want to help me?
“Sounds like a glib comment by a trust-fund baby.”
About: A quote I don't fully understand, anyone want to help me?
March 29, 2013 09:22PM
“Oh, my. My, my, my, my, my, my. ... I've always loved Hamm. He's flat out the handsomest Anglo-Saxon male since Harrison Ford in his prime. But this ..…”
About: Jon Hamm's Penis Publicity is Good for Men
“Oh, my. My, my, my, my, my, my. ... I've always loved Hamm. He's flat out the handsomest Anglo-Saxon male since Harrison Ford in his prime. But this ..…”
About: Jon Hamm's Penis Publicity is Good for Men
March 29, 2013 02:58PM
“Another great essay that reflects the new, and old, challenges we face as parents of adolescents. I read a great book recently and I highly recommend i…”
About: Talking To My Kids About Steubenville, Conclusion
“Another great essay that reflects the new, and old, challenges we face as parents of adolescents. I read a great book recently and I highly recommend i…”
About: Talking To My Kids About Steubenville, Conclusion
March 29, 2013 02:51PM
“Whew! Quite a round-up. Can't wait to read it in greater detail. My husband and I are both science geeks, and I'll share this with him. ... As for the…”
About: Technologies that might change everything
“Whew! Quite a round-up. Can't wait to read it in greater detail. My husband and I are both science geeks, and I'll share this with him. ... As for the…”
About: Technologies that might change everything
March 29, 2013 02:43PM
“Oh God ... one of the funniest movies I've ever seen. The scene where he opens the window to stretch in the morning still sends me into a fit of laught…”
About: Life of Brian - A Look Back
“Oh God ... one of the funniest movies I've ever seen. The scene where he opens the window to stretch in the morning still sends me into a fit of laught…”
About: Life of Brian - A Look Back
March 28, 2013 05:39PM
“These are the kinds of beautiful essays I miss reading here at OS. Thanks for this gift.”
About: "Get a Wiggle On"
“These are the kinds of beautiful essays I miss reading here at OS. Thanks for this gift.”
About: "Get a Wiggle On"
March 28, 2013 05:37PM
“Nice! I'm still trying to wrap my brain around the idea of a master deck builder-cum-poet. Excellent ...”
About: Colour Me...
“Nice! I'm still trying to wrap my brain around the idea of a master deck builder-cum-poet. Excellent ...”
About: Colour Me...
March 28, 2013 11:47AM
“Abra: My heart breaks now to think of just how rough it was for my brother and others. He was so elegant and soft-spoken that we were confident in his…”
About: The Kiss
“Abra: My heart breaks now to think of just how rough it was for my brother and others. He was so elegant and soft-spoken that we were confident in his…”
About: The Kiss
March 27, 2013 08:18PM
“Roger: He came out at 16 because he knew who he was. Being gay was part and parcel of who he was, and he knew he had nothing to be ashamed of. Just Thin…”
About: The Kiss
“Roger: He came out at 16 because he knew who he was. Being gay was part and parcel of who he was, and he knew he had nothing to be ashamed of. Just Thin…”
About: The Kiss
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