Entries by JoAnnGerber
A Straddler's Journey
September 10, 2013 2:58 PM by JoAnn Gerber
You could say that my journey as a Latina in America is from the perspective of a straddler. At least, that’s how I would have described myself at one time – as someone having one foot in the U. S. and one toe in Mexico. For years I was not quite convinced I belonged to either side. It was my mother who provided the connection. She was born in a tent on September 16, 1929, the sixth child of my grandmother, a Mexican migrant farmworker, and the only one in ...