Give yourself permission to celebrate, no matter the challenges ahead

Give yourself permission to celebrate, no matter the challenges ahead

By Victoria Waddle | Contributing Columnist Author Victoria Waddle reads from “Keep Sweet” during a May 17, 2025, book launch event at the The Sam and Alfreda Maloof Foundation for Arts and Crafts in Rancho Cucamonga. (Courtesy of Patrick Muñoz) My collection of feminist short fiction was to launch on the Ides of March 2021. I was an emerging author, happiness humming within. Though many of the stories had landed in literary journals, story coll…