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.

You Better Recognize!

I’ve waited for someone to say the words, “I love you” at various times in my life. Sometimes when I […]


Thank you TJMaxx

TJ Maxx and Mar-shall’s save my life on a regular basis. I know that no matter how tight my wallet […]


The People Speak

It was my great pleasure to witness a historic event, the filming of the Race segment of The People Speak […]



Pick Up Your Power

Pick up your power and use it. Please.Your power is your uniqueness. There’s a reason that you’re you and not […]


Foul Weather Friends

Beware of fair-weather friends is how I’ve heard the saying for most of my life, but I’ve noticed a variation […]


I Wish I Could Sew Like My Mother

Sewing, being stylish, and decorating were/are the arenas in which my mother showed her creativity…strutted her stuff! When I was […]




A Great Day

OBAMA! OBAMA! OBAMA! A change has come. A change neither my mother or I thought we’d see in our life […]


Coziness – A good day

I am blessed today to: have heat in frigid weather; a casserole made yesterday that tasted even better today; a […]



New Year’s Eve

Some people, like my mother and step-father, have a standing New Year’s tradition. They check into a downtown hotel for […]


Lacking a father’s love

At the end of a brief conversation I had with my biological father recently, the first in over a year, he […]




Family

We Are Fam-i-ly!

As I write this, my daughter is reading my blog for the first time.  She has been shamed into it […]


Impatience

I wonder if the impatient tapping of fingers, angry chatter on cellphones, harumphs and other sighs, exasperated looks, pacing back and […]





Skin Hunger

Have you ever noticed that when cats and dogs get near each other, they immediately sniff, touch and frolic? They […]


The yyyyyyys of snow

Y-1 – Why don’t we expect snow in Boston?Y-2 – Why do weathercasters whip themselves into a froth over any […]