title: Dichos de mi Padre: Sayings of my Father
author: Geneva Maria Escobedo
description: Geneva Maria Escobedo was born in Safford, Arizona. She left her small, rural town after graduating from Eastern Arizona College. She lived in Phoenix, Arizona 27 years and worked in the financial and telecommunications industry, and later worked for a non-profit organization and Arizona State University. Geneva completed her Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration from Arizona State University and her Masters in Business Administration from the University of Phoenix. She resides in Tucson, Arizona and retired after a 30-year career in higher education. Her community college and university work included marketing and promotion, student development, multicultural programs, minority recruitment and retention, grant writing/grant management, and developing programs for underprepared college students. She began journaling during her college years and joined two womens writing groups to pursue her goals to write and publish poetry and short stories. In 2012 a short story and several poems were published in a womens anthology, Our Spirit, Our Reality: celebrating our stories. Her poems were also published in Pima Community Colleges art and literature magazines, SandScript (2014) and Cababi Art & Literary Magazine (Fall/Winter 2015). Also in 2015, Geneva was one of 12 authors who contributed a short story and family recipe to Frijoles, Elotes, y Chipotles, Oh My! & Other Tummy Tales, a publication developed by Journey Through Our Heritage Mauricio Saravia Poetry and Community Awards Project funded by the Metropolitan State University of Denver, Office of Institutional Diversity. Geneva is one of over 30 women from the Southwest featured in a multi-cultural, multi-generational photo-journalistic exhibit, Return of the Corn Mother. The women represented earned accolades for community activism and creative endeavors. Each woman featured recounts a story from her memories of the women who influenced her in her life journey. Dichos de mi Padre is Genevas first book. She enjoys writing about Mexican culture, family, spirituality and personal growth.
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  EIDOLON
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  by
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Grace Draven
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Eidolon - Copyright 2015 by Grace Draven
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced,
  distributed or transmitted in any form or by any means, including
  photocopying, recording, or other electronic or mechanical methods, without
  the prior written permission of the publisher, except in the case of brief
  quotations embodied in critical reviews and certain other noncommercial uses
  permitted by copyright law.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Publisher’s Note: This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and
  incidents are a product of the author’s imagination. Locales and public names
  are sometimes used for atmospheric purposes. Any resemblance to actual people,
  living or dead, or to businesses, companies, events, institutions, or locales
  is completely coincidental.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Dedicated to my father, D. W. Walker
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  I love you, Dad.
  
  