THE LATINA BOOK CLUB

       Grieve. But let your grief be your process, not your address. —Pastor Taylor I should be on Prozac, but I’m on prayer instead. —Karen Valentin Publisher: Faith Words Karen Valentin’s new book—THE MOTHER GOD MADE ME TO BE—is poignant, tearful, hopeful and empowering. She married her best friend Gavin. He had doubts the day before the wedding but it could have been nerves. It wasn’t.  Three years and two boys later, he asked for a divorce.  It took two years for the divorce to become final, and during that time Karen drowned in heartache, loneliness and responsibility. But with a strong faith in God and the help of family and friends–including Gavin’s mother and sisters—Karen was able to provide for her sons.  She found a good job, and best of all, she found her voice and began singing and writing again.  It took a while, but Karen soon realized that she was not a victim of her ex’s choices, he was.  ...

  The Latina Book Club wishes everyone a Happy Mother's Day.   And in honor of our Moms, on earth and in heaven, our friend author Manuel Melendez shares with us a poem he wrote five years ago for his Mom on her 80th birthday.             From Manny:   To honor her strength and her wonderful heart, I’m sharing this poem that I wrote for my mother when we celebrated her 80 th Birthday.   Five years later, the poem is one of the things I’m proud to have written for her, and now I know with her blessings, I want to dedicate this poem to every mother that brings that strength, that love and sweetness into all their children’s heart.   Happy Mother's Day!     Feliz Dia de Madres!   Manny and his Mom     WHO ARE YOU?   When I was a child I would look at you and ask myself Who is that woman? Who are you? are you the woman who cleaned my fa...