Wiser With Age

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In My Mother’s Words: A lifetime of lessons

By Victoria Moll-Ramirez May 8, 2015 Advice

Age 5: I saw a woman use a basket full of crayons and her broken English to teach me my colors. I learned who your first teacher really is. Age…

In my Mother’s Words: Being Stood Up

By Victoria Moll-Ramirez May 1, 2015 Advice

As I’ve said many times before my mom is my best friend, but I also share her. My mom is one of my great friend’s best friends. I’m not kidding.…

In My Mother’s Words: Giving credit where credit is due

By Victoria Moll-Ramirez April 24, 2015 Advice

One day a colleague was telling two of us a story about a good friend’s daughter who was getting married. He said the reception was going to be at a…

In My Mother’s Words: What’s done is done

By Victoria Moll-Ramirez April 10, 2015 Advice

My mom is pretty pragmatic. She doesn’t dwell and tries to finds solutions rather than sit there and overanalyze. As I’ve mentioned before, I’m quite the dweller. I’ll think of…

In My Mother’s Words: When I played a practical joke on my mother

By Victoria Moll-Ramirez April 1, 2015 Advice

My last semester in college I was the morning show intern at a Spanish language radio station. One of the segments on the morning show was called “Oye Que Te Cojo” (“Hey,…