It wasn’t until I moved to Los Angeles and saw people from all over Mexico honoring their dead that I built my first Día de Muertos altar 13 years ago. Now, it is an annual rite I practice every Nov.

This is a guest post by Yvonne Condes, originally published in 2017. When my boys were in elementary school, I visited their classrooms every year and talked about Día de Los Muertos to celebrate our ...

For as long as I can remember, I’ve wanted to learn to draw. And for as long I can remember, I’ve been failing to learn to draw. I just couldn’t get the hang of it; every time I put pencil to paper, ...