On February 12th, 2024 we gave our Mama the kids book “Love, Always” on her birthday. Written by my sisters, illustrated by me, and all additional information sourced by my brother.Our goal was to show how nervous her mother must have been. The fear of reuniting with her daughter who she hoped would remember her,…

In 2014 my grandmother, Beatriz Grisolia, passed away. An incredibly strong woman, a survivor of breast cancer, an accomplished doctor, a mother and grandmother who left an irreplaceable hole in our family.Before we knew it, 2024 was on our doorstep, and we knew it would mark 10 years without her. My siblings had been thinking…

A stuffed bunny plushy.My mother has repeatedly expressed to my siblings and I about how much this little conejo meant to her. That she wouldn’t leave it out of her sight for a second. How she slept with it till adulthood. How through several moves, school transfers, flights, and every other bump in the road…

Aixa Perez-Prado was born February 12th, 1964 in Buenos Aires, Argentina.At the age of just 2 her mother Beatriz Grisolia (pictured above) moved to Buffalo, New York USA to work as a doctor joining a wave of international medical professionals being recruited to work in North American hospitals. Two years later her father Antonio Perez-Prado,…

My name is Joao-Roberto Walter Mateo Perez-Prado Doering.I am the youngest of six, part of a family that my parents like to call a joint venture. Both my mother and father are South American, each left their home countries (continents even) had two children in different countries, then met each other and had me and…