Back to School...x2!

So here I am, after a hiatus, writing again...

I have been busy with the back to school routine. My daughter is now a third-grader. Ah, where has the time gone?

And, I am back in college! Yes. Time to finish that forgotten degree. Life has been good to me without it. But a part of me realizes how important education is. How am I going to tell my daughters to continue their education if I don't do the same?

I am attending a womens-only college in my area. I go to school on weekends. And I love it so far. Their teaching style is different. The style I like. But still, it is a lot of work.

But there is a sense of empowerment in going back. I am reevaluating some of my beliefs. I am revising a little how I have been thinking, and becoming more concientious about my surroundings and the world I am in, specially this time of the year with elections coming up. Thinking more of the issues important to me, and what can I do about those issues in my community, in my world.

I am a mother. A Puertorican mother living in the USA. A full time employee and mother, and also, now a student. Wow! What issues affect me that I could do something about, is what I ponder?

Education, women's rights, race relations, affirmative action...? The possibilities are endless, and I am learning more about those possiblities, and what I can do with them...

I hope many others do the same. I cannot change the world alone, but if we all do a little, then, maybe...