In the photo in the introduction, Sandra is in Chicago and it's 1980. 

Sandra has an office that is filled with things from a flea market. 

Sandra is not her father's favorite child. 

Sandra's father decided that, "Too much college and too many gringo friends had ruined her."

Sandra lived for a while in the basement of the building where her eldest brother and his wife lived.  

"Big Brother" means that you are a person who is "keeping a close" eye on someone. 

Sandra's father does not want her to move back to her family home. 

Sandra writes that she communicates an idea "through a story," not poetry. 

Sandra states that she wants to write a book ...

Sandra was part of a writers' community of people who were only from her culture. 

Sandra was a member of a writers' group with people from different nationalities and cultures. 

With the writers in her community, Sandra published an anthology called Emergency Tacos. 

When Sandra was a teacher, her students had ... 

Loyola University is Sandra's Alma Mater.  This means that ... 

Sandra writes that she is afraid of many things. 

Sandra never braids or intertwines characters to become a new person. 

At the time of her writing, Sandra is living in San Antonia, U.S.A. 

Sandra's house does not have a river view. 

A full moon does not remind Sandra of her mother even though there was a full moon on the night Sandra's mother died. 

Sandra's mother dies at her home, on November 1, 2007.