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Mar 21, 2012
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Run

Writings Beneath my Tongue ― I want to write about a lot of things. The first idea that popped into my head this morning was Ray Bradbury’s Zen and the Art of Writing, a quick read that I fell immediately in love with. A quote not his words but his “Zen” helped form them... (More)
Posted on Mar 21st, 2012
Mar 18, 2012
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Last

Writings Beneath my Tongue ― Sonia GuzmanOctober 13, 1976- March 17, 2011The last conversation we had huddled together at your bedside, stirred your bible-thumping mother as she hung her head in prayer before her nightly sleep on a cot beside you. But her slight growl was our... (More)
Last
Posted on Mar 18th, 2012
Sep 20, 2011
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vicarious

Writings Beneath my Tongue ― They look like me from their skin tone to their almond eyesbut they are not mine. They’re eyes sparkle and lips spread high up to earlobesbut I’m not the one that tucks them in each night.They trust me with their white lies and small secretsbut... (More)
vicarious
Posted on Sep 20th, 2011
Jul 20, 2011
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DeColores Queer Orange County: Writing Workshop I

Writings Beneath my Tongue ― DeColores Queer Orange County and Breath of Fire Latina Theater Ensemble held its first of three workshops on Sunday, July 17th bringing together "writers and performers to take part in a monologue showcase. We are searching for an array of stories... (More)
DeColores Queer Orange County: Writing Workshop I
Posted on Jul 20th, 2011
Mar 21, 2011
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You’re my Soldier of Love, Sonia

Writings Beneath my Tongue ― You opened up your arms to meand accepted me, flaws and all,and loved me as God loves all hischildren. You’re the definition of Love and Goodnessthat ties one amiga to another, blood related sister and brotherto honorary siblings around the country... (More)
You’re my Soldier of Love, Sonia
Posted on Mar 21st, 2011
Dec 31, 2010
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Ending the year with Las Niñas

Writings Beneath my Tongue ― I just finished reading Sarah Rafael Garcia’s book Las Ninas: A Collection of Childhood Memories. My friend Sofia and I, have been hording a large pile of books that we’ve been aching to read. She started reading Las Niñas to me as we drove up... (More)
Ending the year with Las Niñas
Posted on Dec 31st, 2010
Dec 10, 2010
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An epiphany at UCR

Writings Beneath my Tongue ― I feel alive when I am on a college campus. I feel like jumping up and hugging all the books I see. I want to grab them like bananas on a kitchen table and just enjoy peeling back to the sweet fruit of words, of dialogue, of nothing and everything... (More)
Posted on Dec 10th, 2010
Oct 20, 2010
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Used, Very Good

Writings Beneath my Tongue ― I was elated to find my Amazon buys were waiting for me since Monday afternoon in my mailbox. I bought three but two came early. Growing up Chicana/o by Tiffany A. Lopez and The Last Generation: Prose and Poetry by Cherrie Moraga, they both have been... (More)
Used, Very Good
Posted on Oct 20th, 2010
Oct 19, 2010
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Confessions in the blue lace bathroom

Writings Beneath my Tongue ― Scenes from American Me kept slicing through my head over and over again as I drove cussing and praying to myself along the way to downtown.I had the chance to get to hell30 minutes early or drive a few blocks more to get soakedin bendiciónes and... (More)
Posted on Oct 19th, 2010
Oct 4, 2010
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Tocando el Sueño

Writings Beneath my Tongue ― Photo by Sonia GuzmanI touched it todayI wanted to grab it like an outfielder on a hot Sunday game dayRun to it as fast as I can before anyone could jump to the chanceGrasp it in my hands for mere seconds as if playing hot potato at a children’s... (More)
Tocando el Sueño
Posted on Oct 4th, 2010
Sep 18, 2010
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Chicana meets Blaxican

Writings Beneath my Tongue ― Enrique first caught my eye on a dating website that I was browsing. It was his warm smile and cute dimples that forced me to email him. We chatted a few times but nothing came of it until one night by chance we meet in person at a nightclub.As usual... (More)
Chicana meets Blaxican
Posted on Sep 18th, 2010
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How we became us

Writings Beneath my Tongue ― Enrique always tells me, he knew I was the one from the first time he saw me on the dance floor. For me it’s an accumulation of little things and different wonderful moments that make up my love and desire to be with him forever.But I would say it... (More)
How we became us
Posted on Sep 18th, 2010
Aug 1, 2010
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Pen and Paper get a Digging

Writings Beneath my Tongue ― Last night, I drove down in my loud ass car to meet Patty Godinez my friend of the friendless to see the world premiere of Cherrie Moraga’s new play, Digging up the Dirt. I was not sure what I was walking into, but I admire the two directors so... (More)
Pen and Paper get a Digging
Posted on Aug 1st, 2010
Jul 8, 2010
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Remembering the Right to (W)rite*

Writings Beneath my Tongue ― Today is a really good day.I am awake and refreshed even though I feel like I am still carrying around a bucket of blood for all the women in the world. I tweeted to my sisters yesterday afternoon that I was bound to a couch in Fullerton and the... (More)
Posted on Jul 8th, 2010
Jul 5, 2010
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Ripped from my journal back in college: Complicated Flower

Writings Beneath my Tongue ― Tonight I found an old friend. I was going through a pile of old journals and I found this beat up one from circa my junior-senior year as well as some post-Chapman entries. (More)
Ripped from my journal back in college: Complicated Flower
Posted on Jul 5th, 2010
Sep 15, 2009
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Peel Me Back into Tomorrow

Writings Beneath my Tongue ― I want to be kissed in every microscopic fold of skin between each finger..index to pinky..thumb to wrist..to the yellow brown soaked into my varying shades of India, morena, mestiza, gitana, negra strips.Repeating over and over as if there was no... (More)
Peel Me Back into Tomorrow
Posted on Sep 15th, 2009
Aug 18, 2009
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In search of my awakening

Writings Beneath my Tongue ― “We do not escape into philosophy, psychology, and art- we go there to restore our shattered selves into whole ones.” –Anais NinI’ll ask the questions-- as if I could trace the motions of all the clumped up particles swishing away in my brain... (More)
Posted on Aug 18th, 2009
Aug 15, 2009
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I prefer duck

Writings Beneath my Tongue ― "The most difficult thing to do is watch someone you love, love someone else." -AnonymousThan again, it feels so good to wake up from your slumber and realize how not in love you are, still or maybe even ever. Love is so easily thrown around and... (More)
Posted on Aug 15th, 2009
Jul 3, 2010
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Writings Beneath my Tongue

Elvia RubalcavaElvia Rubalcava ― http://writingsbeneathmytongue.blogspot.com
My beginning, middle and never-ending journey to push out my stories and thoughts from mouth to blog
Jun 29, 2010
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Esos Ojos

Writings Beneath my Tongue ― **This next piece from Saturday’s intensely wonderful workshop with Moraga and Anthony, came from a FICTIONAL monologue writing exercise. We were given a drawing based on someone in the room but with random and fake facts to describe this made up... (More)
Posted on Jun 29th, 2010
Jun 28, 2010
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albondiga

Writings Beneath my Tongue ― They don’t call me albondiga con patas anymore, well not to my face.I still waddle and carry around all the lonjas from my childhood and awkward teenage years. Sometimes I think if I came out of my mom’s womb literally like a meatball, out of the... (More)
albondiga
Posted on Jun 28th, 2010
Apr 27, 2010
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A Week in Perspective in a Room with a View

Writings Beneath my Tongue ― I spent the past week and a half driving all over town and myself crazy trying to keep up with everything going in my life. Sounds pretty dramatic but although there were some low moments of lack of sleep and energy; for the most part it was an... (More)
A Week in Perspective in a Room with a View
Posted on Apr 27th, 2010
Mar 30, 2010
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Breaking Procrastination: Slapping awake the writer within

Writings Beneath my Tongue ― This blog has been around since 2000, but I started writing my random thoughts and chismes since I was a kid. I loved and treasured my diaries, journals, "my book" as I called each and everyone of them. There are countless stop and start updates.... (More)
Posted on Mar 30th, 2010
Mar 27, 2010
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Palomas

Writings Beneath my Tongue ― Juan Gabriel and other Mexican greats like Lola and Vicente will always take me back to Saturday mornings, deep cleaning the house with my sisters and my mama. My sisters and I used to fight over who would get the easiest part of the house, la sala.... (More)
Palomas
Posted on Mar 27th, 2010
Sep 15, 2009
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Can you hear me, Frida?

Writings Beneath my Tongue ― If I want to, I can dress you up like a rag doll. Change the color of your shirt, the texture of the fabric, and the mood of your wardrobe just by a click and a push of a few buttons. I found a website tonight. Where I not only entered your world of... (More)
Can you hear me, Frida?
Posted on Sep 15th, 2009
Apr 5, 2009
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Spring Cleaning

Writings Beneath my Tongue ― Today I am tackling the everyday things that I have allowed to pile up. I am attacking one monster at a time. I had a very busy but good week and I am ready for another. I need to get into the routine of writing and walking every morning, of course... (More)
Posted on Apr 5th, 2009
Jun 30, 2010
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