DISCLAIMER: In order for this post to make any sense, you might want to review my explanation of what Cubans do at midnight on New Year's Eve. We thought it was going to be a quiet New Year's Eve. Helen (my niece) invited us over to play games and eat junk and wait for midnight. The kids, Daisy (7) and Ben (2) probably were not going to ...
Archives for January 2008
The Knives.
My mom makes these famously Cuban authoritarian pronouncements.When she says something, it is with an air of authority that will not tolerate any argument.Of course, the way she says it immediately makes me question its validity, but since I was raised in a superstitious Cuban home, there is a small residue of what-if-it's-really-true? somewhere in ...
Happy New Year!
It's a new year. And while I don't actually make resolutions, I always feel like the new year is a new beginning.A blank page.A do-over.I always have that thing in me that wants to do more, act nicer, learn things. I always want to be a little better.I think it every time.Every new year.Maybe it's because I'm Cuban.And we are a perpetually hopeful ...
