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Archives for May 2015

The Spamerican! Tour Surprise – A Giveaway

May 31, 2015 By Marta Darby 6 Comments

I was recently invited to cook with celebrity chef Sunny Anderson. I know. Shut up. Of course I was going to attend! The surprise was that she was kicking off The SPAMERICAN!TM Tour and would be cooking - wait for it - with SPAM®. FYI: The SPAM Brand invited me to the event and provided me with a gift bag like the one I'm giving away. All the ...

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Marta. Version 6.0

May 29, 2015 By Marta Darby 4 Comments

I recently celebrated having traveled around the sun for 21,900 days (give or take a couple of leap years). I had a lot of assumptions and deep thoughts about this particular milestone in my life. I'm 60 years old.Here are 20 of my Big Thoughts about this journey of life.1) I thought that I would be further along in certain places. ...

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Veggie & Herb Garden Starter Package Winners

May 28, 2015 By Marta Darby Leave a Comment

As always, I'm grateful for all of you who take the time to enter my giveaways. Plus it makes me feel like I can show my gratitude by offering you something of value.I appreciate that you don't all live in a climate conducive to growing veggies and herbs, so I acknowledge those of you who entered the giveaway and are feeling excited to get your ...

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Hello, Summer Garden! – A Giveaway

May 26, 2015 By Marta Darby 27 Comments

California is fickle.  It can be 100 degrees one day and back down to 65 the next. It's been a relatively mild Spring and we are now barreling towards summer and that means Outdoor Entertaining Season. Can I get an "Amen?" Eric and I have been planning a Big Birthday Bash. It should have taken place this weekend. However, ...

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LEGO® Friends Heartlake City

May 25, 2015 By Marta Darby Leave a Comment

I get so many wonderful invitations to do so many fun things, that I really have to pick and choose where I can best apportion my time. So when I received an invitation from my friends at LEGOLAND® California to visit their newest addition, LEGO® Friends Heartlake City, I was super excited, because...LEGO! But the opening was happening on May 21st, ...

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There’s a Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow

May 22, 2015 By Marta Darby Leave a Comment

Humor me for a few minutes as I time travel a bit. I'm old enough now to remember the days when Walt Disney was the visionary of our time. I remember the days when the Tomorrowland located in Disneyland Park really conceived a distant world of the future.  Back then, the iconic Carousel of Progress was really a vision into a future that ...

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George Clooney – Boy Genius. Talking about Tomorrowland

May 20, 2015 By Marta Darby Leave a Comment

"Imagine a place where nothing is impossible."  Of all the things that I thought that I might be writing about, never did I ever imagine that "interviewing George Clooney" would be one of those topics.  But that happened and here we are.  The context is that Disney Pictures has made a wonderful, oh-so-Disneyesque ...

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The Dodgers and The Cubanity

May 19, 2015 By Marta Darby Leave a Comment

Disclaimer: This post contains an inordinate amount of selfie-type photos of me. Forgive me. I was so over-the-top excited about this night and being where I was and meeting who I met. It's a Cuban thing. Imagine a stadium full of Cubans, all noisy and celebrating and munching on Dodger dogs.  Picture them stopping to do the mandatory ...

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Celebrating Mother’s Day with My People

May 12, 2015 By Marta Darby Leave a Comment

I love nothing more than gathering around a laden table full of delicious food and my favorite people. As a matter of fact, my favorite people happen to be my kids.  Mother's Day weekend felt like it should have a lot of those moments. But of course, I wanted to spend as much time as possible just visiting with Amy and Adam. And enjoying ...

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Hi Mom.

May 10, 2015 By Marta Darby 7 Comments

For those of you loyal readers, by know you've figured out that almost every Mother's Day, we (the children of MBFCF) have proudly hijacked our mom's blog with some adorable photos and commentary about how much we love and adore our mom. The first year, we wrote THIS. The following, THIS.  You get the idea. This year, ...

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My Mother’s Day of Perfection

May 7, 2015 By Marta Darby Leave a Comment

I was feeling a little sorry for myself because Mother's Day is coming and half of my kids are scattered all over the map. See this story. For us Cubans, as is true for most Hispanic cultures, Mother's Day is like a High Holy Day. Am I right? Either way, I was still going to celebrate with the 2 that are still here and of course, ...

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‘Avengers: Age of Ultron’ Review – Marvelous!

May 1, 2015 By Marta Darby 1 Comment

Let's face it, I'm already a self-confessed Marvel Fangirl, so I went into the screening of Avengers: Age of Ultron with really high expectations.  I am not exaggerating when I say that not only were my expectations met, they were fantastically exceeded.  Yes, of course, this much anticipated entry into the Marvel ...

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