La Cristina Dice

We have survived another year. As 2014 comes to an end, we begin to reflect on the last year. We take a snapshot of our lives and we analy...

I’ve spent a limited time on social media this week.   The news of Robin Williams’ suicide has hit me like a ton of bricks.   I didn’t know...

On July 6, 2014 Catalina attended her first bill signing. Illinois House Bill 5755 was sponsored by her auntie Kelly Cassidy . It is a r...

It has been a rough week.   Actually, every week is a rough week when you have a kid.   No one tells you this before you have kids.   But, ...

Last week I made the trip to Springfield to testify on the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) in the State Senate Executive Committee. I was deter...

Below is the Statement I delivered to the Illinois Senate Executive Committee today on the ERA: I’m Cristina Villarreal and I am Preside...

Last week I wrote about my outrage regarding the kidnapped girls in Nigeria . Over the weekend my daughter and I joined the #BringBackOur...

My daughter is the best thing that has ever happened to me.   After I lost my mom in 2007, Mother’s Day has been a hard day for me.   There...

Why does the world not care about girls?  I have been so saddened, sickened, concerned, disgusted, with the kidnapping of a school of girls ...

I gave up Facebook for lent, and I was hoping for some great revelation.   Something along the lines of “it was great to spend more time wi...