To All The Women And

Something About Giving Himself Over To A Woman Was Worse Than Having Lunch With The Devil.

I've Spent My Whole Life In Chicago Being Asked Where Am I From, So That I Have A Sense Of Displacement That Also Is Very Psychologically Disorienting.

There Are Things Coming From Me That I Felt I Wanted To Talk About. My Search For My Own Blend Of Spirituality, My Acknowledgement Of My Sexuality, My Being The Single Mother Of A Young Man.

The Language In New Mexico Is Very Different. At First When You Hear The Speech Here, You Don't Really Know What To Do With It, But Then I Just Went With It, Because As A Writer As Well As A Translator I Do Believe That Translated Words Are Not Different Names For The Same Thing. They're Different Names For Different Things. I Tried To Stay As True As I Could, So I Used Ruben Cobos' Dictionary Of Southwestern Spanish, And When I Went Into Spanish I Never Assumed The Word I Would Use Would Be The Word A Nuevomexicano Would Use.

I Definitely Do See Language Serving Its Users, And When It No Longer Serves Them We Need To Look For New Words.