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.





I was young until…

I was young until I got older. It happened when I wasn’t paying attention. The years were galloping by even […]


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One Face

As I look in the mirror this morning, it strikes me that I’ve been gifted with one face.  It’s an interesting […]


A Great Rainy, Gray Day

Yesterday it was a sunny, lovely 84 degrees in Boston. Today is gray, in the low 60s, and a substantial rain […]



Celebrate! Celebrate! Obama

I do not have anything especially eloquent to say. I cannot offer deep political analysis (there’s a whole lot of […]


A Love Letter to a Friend

A group of friends and I went to see a matinée screening of Sex and the City yesterday. We enjoyed […]




Living Deliberately

In the past few years I’ve been on a conscious and sub-conscious journey to live life deliberately. This deliberate living […]



Apology Not Accepted

I am sick and tired of public figures, be they bloggers, pundits, or politicians, saying racist, misogynistic, and other offensive things and […]







Hard Act to Follow

(I wrote this on 5/15 but didn’t realize I hadn’t published it but had left it in draft form.)A former […]


An Ounce of Prevention

When you do things for your kids that they should do and could do – not only are you spoiling […]


The Ups and Downs of A Week

It Comes in ThreesEarly this week, I heard from a friend that his mother, who’d been suffering from cancer, had […]