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Nov 10, 20221 min read

Friendship While Pregnant

What was your pregnancy like? Here’s mine in four sentences. At the end of my first pregnancy, I was a thirty-five-year-old resuming college

Nov 10, 20221 min read

Anxiety and The Holidays

by Olga Rosales Salinas Originally published at San Francisco Bay Area Moms. Few things make me as anxious as the holiday season. The...

Nov 10, 20221 min read

Upma: Cooking with Sujaya, Indian Cooking for Beginners

by Olga Rosales Salinas Originally published at San Francisco Bay Area Moms. This week on Cooking with Sujaya, Indian Cooking for...

Aug 18, 20222 min read

Créatif, Chirardelli, & A Magic Show

Creatif, Chirardelli, Farrell Dillon Comedy Magician, Three blogs about summertime with my kids.

Jun 3, 20221 min read

I went to a marriage retreat in wine country and all I got was this epiphany

Recently, we decided to go on a marriage retreat in Napa Valley called “A Vision for Marriage,” hosted by Brian and Ruthie Kim.

Feb 27, 20228 min read

First Generation and Representation, Entering the Literary World

First Generation and Representation, Entering the Literary World, Interview with Jose Hernandez Diaz

Jan 25, 20221 min read

The collected wisdom of Jaime Cortez

Interview with Jaime Cortez, author of Gordo. Based in Steinbeck Country, 'Gordo' shows the vulnerable rawness of a vulnerable community.

Sep 3, 20211 min read

How to return to your hometown—and give back—after more than 20 years away

by Olga Rosales Salinas Anytime I’m in a grocery store, at a bakery, or in a restaurant and I come across strawberries, I think about my...

Aug 19, 20211 min read

Pocket Chef? Yes, please.

Do you ever watch those fitness videos on social media where the extra slim (and somehow also tall) mom prepares three weeks’ worth of food

Aug 3, 20211 min read

Food Centered Anxiety? Over 40? That's me.

Before I had kids, managing anxiety was already a significant part of my life: I was in therapy, took medication, and found hobbies to cope.

Jun 28, 20211 min read

What to do when your COVID anxiety outlasts the pandemic

This is the first edition of Thriving While Anxious, Olga Rosales Salinas’s column about accepting your anxiety in your 40s.

Jun 3, 20216 min read

Interview with Alejo Padilla, GRIT

Interview with Alejo Padilla, Founder of G.R.I.T. and Assistant Principle at North Tahoe High School.

May 15, 20211 min read

Pocket Chefs, Family Meal Time is Possible

by Olga Rosales Salinas *Chef Dennis, transforming our Thursday night. It was a normal Friday night, my husband was working late, my kids...

Apr 21, 20218 min read

Interview with Baruch Porras-Hernandez

by Olga Rosales Salinas *Tener ganas. What are ganas, and how do they work? Baruch Porras-Hernandez shares his struggle as an immigrant...

Apr 5, 20216 min read

Interview with Santa Clara County Poet Laureate, Emeritus, David Perez

They write a few lines or pluck out a tune and then think, “What’s the point?”...And then they give up... Don’t do this.

Mar 20, 20211 min read

How Carrie Maultsby-Lute balances the guilt of motherhood during COVID with leaning into her career

In My Prime By Olga Rosales Salinas This past year, I found myself Googling words like “resiliency,” “undaunted,” “gallant,” and...

Feb 11, 20214 min read

Paying it Forward, by Elizabeth Castillo

The first of six daughters to attend college. *Elizabeth Castillo, Homecoming Queen, Class of 1992, with parents, Abel and Maria Rosales....

Dec 18, 20209 min read

Demystifying Macro Counting

Have you ever thought about counting macros, or plan on starting in 2021? Read this today. Disclaimer: If you've never thought about it...