What is MyMiseducation?

Founded in 2018 by Latina writer Maria Molina, MyMiseducation is a blog that covers everything from film, TV, music, and books to personal stories about self-love, growth, mental health, and parenthood. Here, we look back on growing up to explore what it means to be an “adult” when you were taught all the wrong things. MyMiseducation is a play on Lauryn Hill’s iconic album, The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill.

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Fiction

“All Souls’ Day” is a coming-of-age novella that follows a gloomy 12-year-old boy Jose Perez as he ponders the meaning of death when his classmate Miguel drowns. Haunted by his absence and the uncertainty of life, Jose is consumed with thoughts of losing his loved ones. To escape his anxiety he and his best friend Benji go to a haunted house the night after Halloween where the scary thrills of the attraction trigger the memory of Miguel’s funeral. Running out in tears, he encounters Carlos, the school bully, who chases him and Benji all the way to a cemetery. Pushed to prove he’s not a coward, Jose enters the cemetery, but once inside the voice of an otherworldly being making a strange request sends everyone running. This ghostly encounter sets off a dangerous mission and the plans of an ambitious yet crazed scientist whom Jose must stop to fulfill his promise to a dead boy. Available on Amazon Kindle.

Bendito is a short novel set in 1999 during the Y2K scare in the fictional city of Santa Lucia, Pennsylvania, where a large population of Latinos practice Santería. Bendito follows Maritza Cruz, a young woman who is the girlfriend of the talented and successful artist Omar Rivera. Feeling distressed about her derailed creative dreams and jealous of her boyfriend, Maritza decides to start her own magazine, but it doesn’t get the attention she wants. She, therefore, accepts her best friend’s invitation to attend a Santería party and seeks the help of a santero to hasten her success. A truth is hidden from her in her card reading with the santero and she must then put her wants aside to stop a sinister plan. Available on Amazon Kindle.


Meet the Writer

Maria Molina is of Puerto Rican and Ecuadorian descent and lives in Pennsylvania with her husband, Alberto, and their son, Sebastian. She received her BA in English with a minor in Psychology in 2011 from Kutztown University in PA. She thought of publishing a blog in 2017 when she struggled to find a platform for her writing. Feeling down about diverting from her creative writing dreams, she picked up her pen after several years of not writing and created a blog where she could take the first step in reclaiming the person she wanted to be—a writer. It wasn’t until the birth of her son in 2018 that Maria decided to take her writing seriously, feed her literary passions, and fulfill her calling. Email her with any questions or comments here.


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