My friend Pam lives in the town (hamlet? community?) of Hanford in Central California. She and her husband, Gene, go for walks in the evening and this is what they see: It's a toad. A TOAD, people. Can you say, "Gross me out in twelve different ways???" Eeeww! Eric and I go on a nightly walk and this is what we see here ...
Archives for November 2008
Cucufate Explained
The following interactive explanation has been brought to you by the lovely Kikita =D First, click here (then come back): CUCUFATE "Abuela, de donde salio cucufate?" "Cucufate es un santo." WHAT?!?! I asked Señor Google. It's True. Cucufate is the Spanish version of Saint Cucuphas. Who knew that Saints could be ...
It all depends on your point of view
We have a hill across the street from where we live. Ours is what you would call a "single-loaded" street - which is real estate code for "no houses across the street." So, no houses, but a big ole hill. There's actually a water tower up at the top of the hill. And the road to get up there is ...
It’s Election Day . . .
Kikita here. Today I woke up with a heavy heart. I felt like the weight of the world was on my shoulders . . . or at least it was on my mind. My thoughts were somewhere along these lines:I have to vote today. ALONE.The people in Cuba can't vote.Whatever happens today will affect them.Being a Cuban-American version 2.0, I don't think I can ...
Decisions, decisions.
As I told you before, we've already voted. And we don't take that lightly.We read and study and debate and question. And not having a tv means that we will pretty much be glued to the internet tomorrow for election coverage, but that's not important right now. The ballot in California is looong too. Lots of decisions to ...
Falling back
We had no big plans for the weekend after our Halloween party on Friday. Like I said yesterday, we were feeling pretty zombie-like and didn't have energy for much. Honestly, I like weekends where we are all just puttering around the house, reading or watching movies, or working on projects without the "tyranny of the ...
Dia de los muertos
Not really sure what's up with these singing skeletons, but they are up at Disneyland as part of the Day of the Dead display outside of the Rancho del Zocalo Mexican Restaurant at Disneyland. Here in So Cal, because we have such a sizable Mexican population the Dia de los Muertos celebrations are very common. Having grown up going to ...