If I were to write about The Royal Wedding, I’m sure you’d be (rightly) thinking about the wedding that took place just yesterday, April 29, 2011 in England between Prince William and his lovely bride, Kate Middleton. Back in the day.... July 29, 1981, the Royal Wedding was all about the young (19!) and beautiful Diana marrying Prince Charles. ...
Archives for April 2011
For the love of guava…
WARNING: I've used a lot (!) of exclamation points in the following post. Such was my level of excitement... In my family of origin and in the Cuban home where I grew up, we always had a couple of items in the pantry: Cans of leche condensada (sweetened condensed milk). Bars of guava paste. I'm guessing that the way we used those two ...
“Senk Got Ees Fraidei” (read in Spanglish, please)
My mom, Luza, who is 97 is still constantly reading and learning. She just recently learned that TGIF meant "Thank God it's Friday." She liked that. A lot. So every Friday when she comes over here, she starts the weekend with her version, which sounds more like: "Senk yu, Lort, eet ees Fraidei!" (But that's not ...
The Hawk Walk
Last Sunday was Eric's birthday. And rather than add more stuff that-he-doesn't-need-or-want to his life, I had asked him if there was anything that he had always wanted to do, but had not taken the time. "I've always wanted to see how hawks are trained," he said. *quickly Googles hawk training* There's a place in Marysville called West Coast ...
(Vicariously) Riding with Reagan
My two high school students, Lucy (17) and Jonathan (15), both had the privilege of attending the Young America's Foundation High School Conference at the Reagan Ranch Center last month. You can read about Lucy's adventures in Washington D.C. (which include a run in with the Capitol police) last year here. This was Jonathan's first ...
The Sprinklers
We have an old house in an old peanut-butter-and-jelly neighborhood. Our neighbors tell us that before we moved in, this house was the Eyesore of the Neighborhood. (I know. Sad, but true. I'll dig up some "before" pictures of the house one day and blog about it.) Slowly and tenderly, for the past ten years, we have worked on This Old ...
