Brenda is set to graduate from UCLA in just a couple of weeks with a degree in Sociology. She was recently accepted into graduate school at both UCLA and USC!

Maria Canar is strong, beautiful, and funny. She is the mother of two amazing little girls, an immigrant from Ecuador, a first-generation college student, and now a 2020 graduate of University of Minnesota!

To all you single parents out there who are graduating this month or next, congratulations on doing the unexpected!

Raising kids alone is hard. It requires strength and stamina, fearless determination and grit, creativity and vision, but mostly unselfish love

I love maps. Not the Google or Waze kind, but real paper maps. The kind that open up and show you the wide-open spaces that can be navigated, with keys, distances, and landmarks.

For some of us, the pandemic is our first encounter with a traumatic experience. But for others, it’s a visit with an unwelcome relative.

I received an email late last week from a single mom who is at home with her six kids. It began with, “This is really hard!”