Discomforting privilege and a warm welcome to Mexico
4 min readJul 22, 2019
I lived in poverty or scraped by barely making it from paycheck to paycheck for most of my adult life. I lost everything multiple times and had to rebuild. For years, my daughter thought we ate rice and beans almost daily because it was part of her cultura. She didn’t know until years later that it was all we could afford. In Seattle, I worked hard to make ends meet. I did ok and was relieved that…
