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.


Done!

Cuddah, Wuddah, Shuddah, Didn’t, Done! Translation: Could have, Would Have, Should Have, Did Not, Done!


I Apologize to Others

I wrote a piece a couple of days ago in which I apologized to myself. I would be remiss if […]



I Apologize to Myself

I apologize to myself: for the opportunities I’ve squandered along the way, for challenges I avoided, for not doggedly pursuing […]



There has to be life

I was planning to write on something else today – Oprah envy and rumors – but something else keeps popping […]





I was away but now I’m back

I have just returned from a very pleasurable five-day visit to California. (Did you miss me?) We visited my husband’s […]



Pleasurable and free

There are a lot of things that are pleasurable and free but today I’m talking about the pleasure of taking […]


All-American

“He lives in an ordinary, all-American sort of place…” begins an article by David Mehegan in the Boston Globe on April […]


Don’t say no to yourself

So many of us limit ourselves. It is easy to do. It is difficult to counter the negative messages that […]




Bor-ing, Bles-sing

There have been times in my life when nothing much was going on except the routine things of life. Get […]


Every One a Miracle

Every single human being is a miracle of conception and construction (and, for now at least, a miracle of uniqueness). […]



A touch, a touch, a touch

I have observed that when dogs and cats see other dogs and cats, they rub against each other and touch. As […]



I Did it with my Own Two Hands

Sometimes I surprise myself. Sometimes I surprise others. I surprised myself and my family when I recently did two do-it-yourself […]