Blog hijacking shall commence in 3... 2... 1... Hi. This is Lucy. My mom doesn’t know that I’m posting this. But she does know that I love to tell stories. I got that from her. And there’s a beautiful story I know about my mom that I would like to share. But because ...
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Celebrating Abuela
I never knew my grandparents. We left Cuba when I was so very young that I barely remember my grandmothers. I think my dad's parents had already passed away by the time I was born. And I have just the few mental snapshots that a five year old can retain of my mom's mother. Here's a beautiful old photo of her, my maternal grandmother, ...
May the 4th Be With You
In 1977 when I was young and adorable (This is NOT a lie), a film was released that changed my personal perseption of movie making forever. (This is NOT a lie, either.) It was only playing on a few screens and there was no advertising for it. It was completely word of mouth. We had friends who dragged us to this screening. Apparently everyone was ...
The First Born
The experience of having a child is possibly the most traumatic, amazing, delightful and life-changing event of any woman's life. If you have more than one child, you are a little bit better prepared for child #2 or #3 or #4 (or #6 or #8...). Having that first one, however, is so incredibly new and so incredibly different from anything ...
Old Ladies in Hats and Royal Weddings
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. ...
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 ...
