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Welcome to Mommy’s El Camino. Chapter Sixty-Two, from Hollywood Notebook by Wendy C. Ortiz, pub. Northwestern University Press
surviving
Welcome to Mommy’s El Camino. To access the full archive of MEC, from March 2023 forward, with newsletter topics ranging from writing life to ambition to...
notebook entry
Welcome back to Mommy’s El Camino. Subway station, July 2025. Photo by my kid. 7/18/25 I took this notebook with me all the way to New York and never opened...
summer break
Welcome to Mommy’s El Camino. June 28, 2025, Los Angeles, CA Summer break, as in, a break from the everyday firehose of bad news? Not quite. Summer break, as...
what I read, January-June 2025
Welcome to Mommy’s El Camino. What’s it like, living in Los Angeles in summer of 2025? It’s noticing any vehicles that look suspicious and wondering about...
harmony/discord
Welcome to Mommy’s El Camino. Today’s post was going to be a list of the books I’ve read since January, with some commentary and quotes. But then yesterday I...
arguing with my dead father
Welcome to Mommy’s El Camino. Thanks to everyone who was able to make it out into the streets this weekend and this past week…and thanks to everyone who made...
take heart
Welcome to Mommy’s El Camino. Los Angeles, 6/7/25 Support Jail Support in LA, a grassroots collective dedicated to supporting anti-oppression work in Los...
here and there
Welcome to Mommy’s El Camino. banana leaf A friend suggested I was on book tour because I mentioned I was going to New York in July. This doesn’t feel like a...
three rooms
Welcome to Mommy’s El Camino. Sunday involved an urgent care visit for my mother (all is okay now), so here we are, a Monday newsletter this week. ::: three...
sentences
Welcome to Mommy’s El Camino. SENTENCES FROM PROJECT JOURNAL SEPTEMBER 2024 TO MID-MAY 2025 I have memories that feel like if I say them, touch them, they...
lovely day
Welcome to Mommy’s El Camino. It’s Friday. I missed Sunday, or, rather: I took Sunday off. Today, May 16th, is my birthday. Please buy my three books. Get...
this rich life
Welcome to Mommy’s El Camino. If you’re in or near Chicago, or have friends there: Chicago! Come on by. Friday, 4/25/25 In the pool first thing in the...
depreshy on main
Welcome to Mommy’s El Camino. 4.24.25 Los Angeles, CA Mid-week I realized: I’ve been more than just fatigued, depleted by the doomscroll, sapped by work,...
::upcoming::
Welcome to Mommy’s El Camino, the Monday edition. If you’re in Los Angeles, come see me this Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. FRIDAY in Echo Park: SATURDAY at...
your local library + my rerelease pub week = 💚
Welcome to Mommy’s El Camino. If you’re in L.A. on Fri. 4/25, join us. It’s the week of my books being re-released into the world from Northwestern...
passport
Welcome to Mommy’s El Camino. Let’s meet in person. IRL. Friday, April 25th at Stories Books and Cafe, Echo Park, Los Angeles. 6pm-8pm. There will be cake....
exit
Welcome to Mommy’s El Camino. ~took an exit through the desert~ ~see you next week~
the slowdown
Welcome to Mommy’s El Camino. Bikini in one of her righteous faceplants Cords of tension seized in my back on Monday. I want to move faster in the world and...
you, me: still here
Welcome to Mommy’s El Camino. a piece of art made by my child in March 2020 I’m interested in keeping this short and sweet. Let’s see how I do. It’s been...
