This is the year I’ll become a winter person. Nothing like a pandemic and the prospect of six months confined indoors to open me up to new (previously dreaded) things. Winter is normally my season of woe: the long stretch of shorter, darker days that make life feel like the ultimate “Why bother?” I’m afraid […]
Author: Nancy Mendez-Booth
Anchors away
Life anchors should provide freedom, bravery and strength, not stuck-ness.
When No Means Yes
If I don’t matter to myself, how can I expect to matter to anyone else?
Rock star days
In the before times, I was a rock star.
#Workfromhomelife
#WFH = time, space and boobs unbound
Bruja fea
Lessons in hate.
Room with a view
Looking out my window in 2020 and remembering a view from the past.
Storm clouds
Dire and damning. That’s what authority sounds like to me–and it gives me comfort.
Dancing when no one’s watching
Things to do during the isolation of pandemic: give up picking my nose, dance to WBLS as I work from home.
One Boricua’s story. Onstage. One night only.
Friends, I am happy to share that tickets to the first staged reading of my one-woman show are available: Wednesday, March 13, 2019 | 7:30 pm | Jersey City Theater Center | Tickets and information: Click here “I Don’t Know How She Does It” is the story of one Boricua’s rise from the projects to the Pulitzer, despite an apathetic […]