Vanessa Diaz

1 week ago | bookriot.com | Vanessa Diaz

This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. When I was around 11 or 12 years old, my family traveled to Jalisco for a quinceañera. We began the trip in the city of Guadalajara where I hung out with cousins I was meeting for the first time, and we engaged in a sort of cross-cultural exchange.

2 weeks ago | bookriot.com | Vanessa Diaz

This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. On a Saturday morning in the early ’90s, Kid Me was deep in my usual cartoon lineup when an episode of Looney Tunes came on featuring a detective version of Daffy Duck. His name was Dorlock Holmes, he lived at 221 7/16 Bleeker Street, and his favorite pastime was deduction.

3 weeks ago | bookriot.com | Vanessa Diaz

This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. When I first moved from San Diego to Portland in 2019, all anyone could talk to me about was the rain. “It rains there a lot. There’s so much rain. Do you even own a raincoat?

1 month ago | bookriot.com | Vanessa Diaz

Looking ahead to Mother’s Day this month got me thinking about my deep reverence for motherhood that has only grown with age. I don’t want kids myself, but it’s because I appreciate more and more what a profound undertaking being a mother is, from the physicality of birthing biological children to the everyday act of raising a human, biological or otherwise.

1 month ago | bookriot.com | Vanessa Diaz

This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. I saw a post on Threads earlier this year that said every bookish girlie has gone through either a Greek mythology, Tudor dynasty, or Egyptology era in their youth. Not to brag, but I went three for three, baby! Then I made those phases a lifetime commitment.