Sententia Vera & Dulce Book Shop Unite in the Promotion of Language & Culture

After a full day of collaborative participation and in the spirit of the highly successful ProductCamp Austin, an unconference, I am inspired to join my two companies to strengthen the mission of both and share with a wider audience. I am a culturist, therefore both companies promote and fully support multi-language acquisition and multicultural experiences [...]

Internationally Local

     Local has been on my mind lately. Buy local. Support local. Shop local. But how can I advocate a global ideology and multicultural identity without contradicting the local movement. After all, as owner of Dulce Bread & Book Shop, I own a local, independent, small business, yet promote global literature, ideas, and awareness, as [...]

Book Review | Just Like Us, The True Story of Four Mexican Girls Coming of Age In America by Helen Thorpe

A powerful and moving account of four young women from Mexico who have lived most of their lives in the United States and attend the same high school. Two of them have legal documentation and two do not. Just Like Us is their story… and the story of many others. This brilliant, fast-paced work of [...]

Book Review of America Libre, A Novel of Family, Country, and Revolution by Raul Ramos y Sanchez

I met Raul Ramos y Sanchez on a Latina writers’ group website, NuncaSola. I’m not sure how our contact occurred but all the same a pleasure to have made his acquaintance. I have since followed his public debut as a writer and marveled at his tenacity to publication. After five months as a self-published edition, [...]