By Sheana Ochoa On the morning Adam Lanza discharged countless bullets on two rooms full of children and staff in Connecticut I was sound asleep next to my four-year-old son in Los Angeles. His grandpa was visiting and using his room so he slept with Mommy and Daddy. On the morning of the […]
Pretending Normal
Plan B: Marriage
By: Sheana Ochoa After getting married I knew my status as a blogger for The Next Family would have to change from “single mother by choice” to “urban dweller”, which, I told my editor, didn’t sound as sexy. I wondered how an urban dweller is representative of a modern family, the audience to which The […]
Pop, When Will You Listen?
My Mom, My Best Friend
My Toddler’s Funny Bone
Losing My Religion -Southern Expression for Losing Your Cool
By: Sheana Ochoa In college I took a class called “Historical Jesus”, investigating the life of the real man who had older siblings and eventually married. Whether accurate or not, it made me question what I had learned as a little girl that Jesus was immaculately conceived by a virgin and he himself was celibate. […]