Candelaria Silva


About Candelaria Silva

Candelaria Silva-Collins is a marketing, community outreach and programming consultant; writer; and trainer/facilitator who lives in Boston, Massachusetts. She has designed and facilitated workshops on a wide variety of topics including communication, facilitation, job search skills, team building, and parenting issues. She currently coordinates the Community Membership Program of the Huntington Theatre Company. Her work as Director of ACT Roxbury was profiled in several publications, including The Creative Communities Builders Handbook. Candelaria’s children’s stories, short stories, essays and reviews have been published in local and national publications and she is an active blogger. Her publications include the booklets, Handling Rejection; Pushing through Shyness: Networking Tips when You’re Shy, Slow to Warm Up or Just don’t Feel you Belong; and Real Questions about Sex & Relationships for Teens: A Discussion Guide for Parents. She has served on the boards of Goddard College, Wheelock Family Theatre, Boston Foundation for Architecture, and Discover Roxbury. She is currently Chair, Designators of the Henderson Foundation.

Distance Reading

My reading distances me; it takes me away from people I love.  It sometimes forms a barrier.  I need to […]


When Spring Fever Hits

Spring Fever from the Songs Somebody Should Sing series by Candelaria N. Silva When spring fever hits And your sap […]


Calendar Betrayal

The reminders pop up every day in my calendar. This meeting…that meeting. This event…that event. The words feel like a […]









A new place for thanks

For the first time in many, many years, I will not be cooking anything on Thanksgiving.  Even when I’ve gone […]



Howdy Partner

Howdy Partner/Becoming Partners The comedian Flip Wilson famously played a character, Geraldine on his comedy show. In one of the sketches […]



Celebrating Norma Jean – 85

In 2011, I wrote a post titled, Don’t Change: An Impossible Request of Family.  It seems like it was just […]





Tax Day – the IRS

Angie Stone proves once again that artists can make art out of anything,  even owning the I.R.S. Being broke is […]





Apology Desired/Expected

There are some apologies from public figures that I desired and expected, perhaps stupidly.  I am glad that I didn’t […]