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From Contributing Blogger Yvonne Silva Buenos Dias, Powerful Latinas! Your resident sexpert here bringing you some more great tidbits and advice to spice up your love life and add extra “sabor” to your bedroom. As if a powerful Latina needed more, right? I’d figure we’d go back to school for this week’s lesson: Sex Toys …

From Contributing Blogger, Dr. Ana Nogales Slavery is a thing of the past, a subject we studied in school. It existed long ago before the Civil War and the Emancipation Proclamation put an end to it in this country. That’s what I always assumed, but in the last several years I have discovered that my assumption …

Spring Cleaning & Spring Equinox- equinox is the time of year when the length of the day and night are equal. “Solo venimos a sembrar, solo venimos a cortar flores…” -Nahuatl poem This year the vernal equinox arrives at 5:30 p.m. Saturday, March 20th. All over Mexico thousands will dress in white and go to …

This week I’ve been hanging out with Laura Contreras Rowe, author of the book, Aim High: Extraordinary Stories of Hispanic and Latina Women. It’s interesting, because we both have a love of stories — especially those of Latina women! — and how we can learn from these stories and share them with others. We share …

Who is the oldest primary school pupil in the world? That’s a trick question. You see, the person who used to claim that honor died in August 2009. Most likely, none of us in the United States knew him, and, in fact, most people in his own country—Kenya—didn’t know him either. His village, however, was …

This past week has been an interesting one for me. Yes, it was my birthday, and that had me reflecting, but what was an even bigger learning experience for me was the health problems suffered by my dog, Lucky, and the insights I got from both my own and others’ reactions to the situation (including …

As we delve into the concept of learning, our money blogger Aurora Medina asks you to consider how much you spend toward the goal of true learning… If you keep track of your monthly expenses and you separate those expenses into categories, I would love to know how much money you are allocating investing in …

For the month of January, we explored the theme of Know Yourself.  This is a core concept and foundational to the message behind Powerful Latinas. If we don’t create who we are, we allow others to manipulate those definitions. I saw a wonderful quote this past week, as follows: “Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to …

A former Simon & Schuster editor, Marcela Landres is the author of the e-book How Editors Think and specializes in helping Latinos get published. Check out her webpage at: www.marcelalandres.com. The Last of Her Kind: A Novel by Sigrid Nunez (Picador) Incisive and absorbing portrayal of the troubled friendship between two Barnard College roommates, working …