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Stories worth the quiet.

This is where Flor writes. Not the headlines — the full story. Personal essays, reported pieces, opinion columns, and the occasional letter to her kids that accidentally became publishable. Browse by category or start with what’s most read.

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The Journal · PERSONAL ESSAY

The Discipline of Grace

How Ballet and Sacrifice Shaped My Voice as a Writer Ballet taught me, long before I had the words for it, discipline, precision and projection. It taught me…

August 27, 2026 Read More →

The Journal · PERSONAL ESSAY

My abuela never talked about the revolution. Now I understand why.

On silence, survival, and the stories that shape us most deeply, and why the things we don't say are sometimes the loudest inheritance we leave.

April 4, 2025 Read More →

The Journal · MOTHERHOOD

Passing down more than memories

The wisdom that gets lost between generations — and how to find it again before it disappears entirely.

April 2, 2025 Read More →

The Journal · FAITH & HEALING

What I Couldn’t Pack

When everything is stripped away — career, identity, the version of yourself you worked so hard to build — what remains? Flor writes about the year she fell apart, and what she found when she stopped trying to hold it all together.

March 28, 2025 Read More →

The Journal · FAITH

Why I don’t apologize for my faith on air anymore

On the moment Flor decided to stop softening who she is for a microphone — and what happened when she did.

March 15, 2025 Read More →