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My 7 Favorite Blog Posts

October 29, 2013 By Marta Darby 1 Comment

Wrapping up my month-long Happy 7th Blogiversary Celebration and I thought it would be a good time to reflect on what I've managed to put up here for the past 7 years.

It's funny. I sit down to a blank page (so to speak) and I have some idea of what I'd like to write about. Usually, because I tend to be very visual, I start with a photo that I feel illustrates a story that I'd like to tell. Sometimes I have a story and I feel compelled to search for the photo to illustrate it. Either way, I must have the photo.

Many times when I sit down to write, I don't feel like I've got one creative thought left in my brain, but that's not important right now.

That's my process.

So, in honor of my Seven Years in the Blogosphere, here are 7 of my favorite stories posts from the MBFCF archives over these past seven years. I tried to take a random sampling so you get a good idea as to how my brain works. (You've been warned.)

1. ABC…easy as…1,2,3…

In 2006, I wrote about our Cuban superstition fascination with lucky and unlucky numbers.

Amy jon & adam

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2. El Cocotaso – or how a blow to the head forever altered my identity

In 2007, I told the elaborate story of how I came to be called Marta.

Marta as a baby

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3. Out of the Shadows

In 2008, I wrote about my kids and their baby shoes. Get tissues.

Shadow boxes

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4. Guess Who's Coming to Dinner?

In 2009, I got an email from a British TV producer who was interested in maybe having their cooking celebrity (rhymes with Ramie Toliver) visit a Cuban family in Southern California.

Jamie oliver

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5. How Google Works – A very Cuban explanation

There was that time in 2010 that I got my mom (she was only 96 then) to explain how the internet search engines work and she became an overnight YouTube sensation. Get popcorn.

Screen Shot 2013-10-29 at 12.57.12 PM

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6. Cooking With the Troops or Meet Team Cubanaso

In July of 2011, my family and I got the chance of a lifetime to feed 300 of our troops a big, fat, very, Cuban lunch. In cooperation with Babalú Blog and Dos Cubanos Pig Roasts in Texas.

Team Cubanaso

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7. Everyone Should Have a Giant Chalkboard

Showing a little of my creative side with a step-by-step on how I do my party planning. Also, I have a giant chalkboard. And it makes me happy.

Lucy me and amy

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Those are just a few of the highlights of my blogging life for the past 7 years. If you're interested in reading more, you can always peruse my Categories and Archives or check out my Cuban Recipes.

Or feel free to join the big, fat, Cuban relajo on Facebook.

You can also click on the link below if you'd like to follow me on Instagram. I'm Smrtqbn.

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Thanks for reading my stories for all these years. I will seriously take up the challenge of entertaining you for at least 7 more.

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  1. Amanda says

    November 1, 2013 at 8:10 pm

    Favorites, all of them! Love you!!

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