As My Mother Would Say

By Judith Valles

As My Mother Would Say…is about being raised in a conservative Mexican Family that valued the traditions and sayings of Mexico. The proverbs or “dichos” were a daily dose of teachings from my mother. We believed she made them up as situations arose and it was not until we began using the “dichos” as adults, that ot

• Language: English
• Publisher: Book Vine Press
• Release date: Jan 10, 2019
• ISBN: 9781949574524

Judith Valles

Judith Valles, has over 45 years experience as an educator from teaching to college presidencies, the first Latina president of a college or university in California as well as the first Latina to be elected Mayor of a city over 100,000 residents in the U.S. She has retired several times but has not been successful at it. She has been consulting and often called upon to be a speaker at different conferences She lives in San Bernardino, California, her hometown.

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May, Mother’s Day:

I am sitting at the grave site of my parents and, having a conversation with them as if they could hear me. I told them that I knew that they would be proud of me and I mourned the fact that my father died too young and my mother too ill to fully comprehend the impact their examples had on all of our lives.

They would have been proud. I shared with them some of the events of my life and how even