Evangelina Holvino
Evangelina Holvino is a creative non-fiction writer and a free-lance consultant on issues of social differences and justice in non-profit organizations.
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I was always a good student, never experiencing trouble in school. But, my brother was just the opposite: distracted, always clowning around and acting鈥�
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As a Puerto Rican child, I had the good fortune to get gifts both on Christmas Day and on the Three Kings Day, January, 6th. Early in the evening on鈥�
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Last Thanksgiving, I traveled more than a few miles to meet seven other volunteers and twelve inmates in a medium security prison for a Thanksgiving Table鈥�
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While Vermont is the whitest state in the nation, as many as thirty-four thousand of its residents speak a language other than English in their home. And鈥�
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In 1955, Rosa Parks inspired the Montgomery bus boycott in Alabama when she refused to give her rightful seat to a white man. I was seven years old and鈥�
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As early as I can remember, I鈥檝e considered Christmas the happiest holiday. A photo of a four-year-old me, dressed as a shepherdess, reminds me of the鈥�
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One of the hardest decisions of my life was telling the oncology nurse at the Brattleboro Memorial Hospital that I was not submitting my 87 year old鈥�
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This winter, my brother lay in a comma in a San Juan Regional Hospital bed dying from Kaposi鈥檚 sarcoma. This fatal type of cancer had spread to his鈥�
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This year, a fox the color of fire took up residence in the lower part of our overgrown garden. She built an enormous den and proceeded to play, feed,鈥�
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I came to appreciate the importance of language in health care when my bilingual mother returned to live in Brattleboro after spending a few months with鈥�
