Marta here: I'm celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month: Cuban-Style with a series of stories about Cuban American families: Cuando Sali de Cuba, stories of courage and hope. This one is from my friend and fellow blogger, Christina Gomez-Pina. Inspired by the book/film Julie & Julia, she has embarked on her own Project: to celebrate ...
Welcome To My Blog!
La Mala Letra – my cousin, the dissident Cuban blogger
As many of you know, I still have family in Cuba. Aunts, uncles, cousins and their offspring. We used to be thick as thieves back in the day, but time and distance and a repressive dictatorship has managed to destroy what close relations we had. I have a cousin in Cuba, who is my age. (One of the few photos of us together from ...
A lesson in Male vs. Female problem solving
We have had some seriously schizophrenic weather here in the O.C. in the past week. First there was a string of really ridiculously surface-of-the-sun type hot days in the 100+ range. Then, poof! The hot weather disappeared and there was a thunder-lightning-downpour with a nice cool breeze. All that to say that when the weather changes in ...
It takes a village. (iVillage to be exact.)
According to Wikipedia:Hispanic Heritage Month (September 15–October 15) in the United States is the period when people recognize the contributions of Hispanic Americans to the United States and to celebrate Hispanic Cultural heritage and Hispanic culture. Hispanic Heritage Week was approved by President Lyndon Johnson and was ...
Ten years later. I will never forget.
Ten years ago at the end of September of 2011, my daughter and Amy went to New York City. We were there exactly two weeks after Muslim jihadists flew airplanes into the World Trade Center buildings and left a gaping hole in the New York skyline and in our collective American consciousness. The wreckage was still smoldering and burning and the ...
Why I * heart* Amazon
My family and I are all voracious bibliophiles. Voracious. Personally, I don't care either way if the book is the old-school paper kind or a good e-book. I love to read. Full stop. I have been loving the free Kindle for iPad app because I can store dozens of books on my iPad and make notes and add highlights and do all the things I ...
Da life.
We just returned from an amazing cruise vacation in the Caribbean. And while our bodies are physically back home, our brains are still here:Me & Eric in Barbados. (I think he looks like a mad scientist in his swim goggles, but that's not important right now.) I swear, I haven't got one original thought in my head right now. ...
Voices From Mariel – a Screening (or 2 or 3)
**The following post was written and brought to you by the one and only Kikita. Marta and the rest of the big, fat, Cuban family are currenty cruising to Puerto Rico** Mami, Marta, has been collecting your Cuando Sali de Cuba stories for quite some time now getting ready for Hispanic Heritage Month. What better way to kick off the month than with a ...
Cuban Food Review … Or is it?
*The following post was written by Kikita, la hija de Marta.* Here in "The Bubble" (as Mami likes to call it), there is not much Cuban food to be had. That's why Mami posts recipes over on Babalú Blog. That's why we cook so much. If we want to eat out and we want to eat Cuban food, we have to take a road trip. So, imagine ...
Back-to-(Home)School
Jonathan started his sophomore year of high school today. The beauty of homeschooling is that we can "do school" anywhere that has WI-FI, amazing food....and tiny dinosaurs. ;-) Happy First Day of School! ...
