An excerpt from Friday night’s posting from an Oregon hotel room by La Queen Sucia — bestselling author Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez:
I love the opportunities my life has afforded me. I love the people I meet along the way. But there is something terribly sad about meeting so many fantastic people, like Tiffany, the student director of the Women’s Program I’m speaking at tomorrow, knowing that in a day or two I will fly off and most likely never see or speak to them again. Brief connections. Lots of them. Conversations filled with meaning, ephemeral. Giving, giving, giving. Energy. Lots of it. Almost like a high-class literary call-girl. In one day, used up, out the next. Needed only for the time it takes to entertain the client.