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If This is High Functioning..?

By Ada Soto | December 20, 2017 | Category Mental Health, Proper Blog

Since being officially diagnosed as bipolar in my late twenties (no on ones’ surprise) I have been described as “High Functioning” by three different psychiatric professionals. The first was the psychiatrists that gave me my official diagnoses and first medication. I liked him. He understood that as a creative I had a slightly different take […]

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If It’s Not One Thing

By Ada Soto | October 19, 2017 | Category Mental Health

Last week I went to the optometrist because the UV coating on my glasses was peeling off. This was annoying, to say the least. It made the lenses blurry and it’s coming into summer and any and all UV protection is very important in New Zealand. I have terrible vision to begin with. I’m incredibly […]

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Situationally White and Occasionally Other

By Ada Soto | August 9, 2017 | Category Travel

I have written in my bio that I’m a Mexican American/WASP which is a lazy description of my background but it’s three words where I don’t have space for fifty. The Mexican is the important word for this story. I grew up with a Spanish last name and a tan in California. This means people […]

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The Sacred Recipes

By Ada Soto | December 21, 2016 | Category cooking

Food is sacred. Food is culture, religion, tradition, civilization. Few rituals don’t involve food in some definition. It might be as simple as a pinch of saffron or a sip of wine. It might be grand meals of celebration. It might be the self-denial of food making the return all that more important. That makes […]

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The Dyslexic Novelist

By Ada Soto | October 26, 2016 | Category writing

I am dyslexic.  I’ve blogged about it before and it is stated in my bio.  I’m also a writer.  To most people these two things don’t go together.  How can someone be a writer if they can’t read or spell or do anyone of dozens of things people who know nothing about dyslexia assume?  In […]

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The Passing of a Proper Woman

By Ada Soto | August 7, 2016 | Category Proper Blog

My grandmother passed away two weeks ago. We buried her last Thursday. She was 96, her mind was mostly gone, and she’d been given two weeks to live fifteen months ago. She took a couple of deep breaths in her sleep then just stopped. There are worse ways of going. I’d like to say she […]

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Ghostbusters (2016) – It Did What It Was Meant To Do

By Ada Soto | July 21, 2016 | Category Film Reviews

I love the Ghostbusters. When I was a kid it was my favourite Saturday morning cartoon* (I didn’t see the movie, I was three). Egon and Winston were my first great loves, though even then I understood that Egon’s first true love was science. I saw every episode, many written by J. Michael Straczynski who […]

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Mindful on the Mountaintop

By Ada Soto | February 4, 2016 | Category writing

On January 11, 2008 Sir Edmond Hillary, known as Sir Ed to his fellow New Zealanders, the first person to make it to the top of Everest, passed away. I went to see him as he lay in state in the Holy Trinity Cathedral the night before his funeral. My father has always been an […]

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WoHeLo

By Ada Soto | November 18, 2015 | Category parenting

The other day I read an article on sfgate about a group of girls in California, just north of where I grew up, who were trying to officially join the Boy Scouts despite there being Girl Scout groups available to them. They feel they are a bitter fit for the Boy Scouts because “they (Girl […]

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Write On or Why I Got Lou Diamond Phillips to Sign a Script for a Show That Never Happened

By Ada Soto | October 28, 2015 | Category writing

I love television. I know that is heresy for an author to admit but I really do love it. I also love books, I’ve been reading obsessively since I was three, but along with that have a deep relationship with a lot of television. In fact I want to be a television writer when I […]

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