Lalita Diaz

Oh this year … wow … I’m practically out of breath even thinking of writing this year in review … holding off just one more day … one more hour.…

The second I titled my last year in review piece, “2012: The Most Transformative Year Yet,” I wondered if I was setting myself up for failure somehow, like maybe 2013…

How does one express in writing the grandiose statement, “This was the most transformative year of my life,” without using the word amazing 25 times or sounding like a total…

Someone told me today, this first day of 2012, that I had the right to be more full of myself. That people might not know what I am capable of because…