(This is the ad that's going in the Bye Bye Birdie program. I crack myself up. =D) ...
Archives for May 2009
It’s my blog and I’ll whine if I want to
List of stuff that's stressing me out right now:We returned from our trip to Washington D.C. and New York a week ago and I'm still catching up on laundry. Lucy has a performance this coming weekend for which I am painting backdrops and overseeing costumes. Our first technical rehearsal was today and I'm pretty exhausted. Jonathan ...
Memorial Day
Eric and I just recently returned from taking our teenage kids, Lucy and Jonathan on a trip to Washington D.C. We saw and learned so much that we were at times overwhelmed with the amount of information coming our way. We’re still working on writing about and documenting our trip, but the events of one particular day have been difficult to ...
Today My Mom is Twenty-One . . .
. . . with thirty-three years of experience. 33!Obviously, this is Kikita and I'm here to write a properly effusive post about my Mom for her birthday.The problem is, I am in no mood to talk about her. I just got back from Miami and am feeling the need to talk about me. The morning that I left for my 5 day trip, my friend giving me a ride to ...
Ya viene llegando…
My mom gave me a piece of Cuban history recently. It's a list of names from 1960. The list was of a group of unaccompanied minors who were sent here to the U.S. by their desperate parents to protect them from Castro's plans for the youth of Cuba. The exodus of 14,000 minors was dubbed Operacíon Pedro Pan. (Operation Peter Pan.)1960. ...
Tiki Tiki – stories with cultura, color and sabor
I'm involved in a lot of projects.But I'm particularly proud of this one: It's a new magazine-style site called the Tiki Tiki. (I'm soooo excited about this!) The best part of this project is that I have had the privilege and pleasure to collaborate with three amazingly talented and passionate Latinas: Carrie, Carla and ...
Getting Connected
I, Kikita, am standing here FLOORED. I was walking by a Verizon Wireless booth and I see people laughing and others crying. Everybody is on the phone. Obviously, Verizon is here to promote themselves, but what are they doing to these people?? As it turns out, Verizon was letting them make free 15 minute phone calls to anywhere . . . Mostly, Cuba. ...
Here I am!
Kikita here! I am testing this whole "mobile blogging" thing. I spent all day yesterday at the Babalu Blog booth in Cuba Nostalgia. It feels like a family reunion and everybody misses Mami (myselfincluded). If you are in town, feel free to stop by and say hi to me tonight. I will be back at the Babalu booth representing MBFCF as best I ...
On top of the world
A confession: I'm afraid of heights.Okay, well maybe not AFRAID-afraid, but when I get to a high place my knees start tingling and my neck gets a weird tense-as-a-brick feeling. So I don't choose to climb up to high places much. But I'm in New York City. Home of the High Places That Make Your Knees Feel Weird. ;-) And I don't ...
Today
Jonathan was only five years old when the 9/11 terrorist attacks occured in 2001. We didn't have tv then either and chose not to tell him or Lucy (who was 8) about the attacks. We would tell them later, we decided. When they were older and we could better explain the presence of evil in our world. There would come a day we'd recall the ...
