Another fabulous post by Kikita I know I've mentioned how much I adore my African friends, so you can imagine how excited I was to have plans with them all weekend and pretend I was African instead of Cuban. On Saturday night, I was invited to the World Harvest Summer Concert where my friends from Milele would be playing.Ok, so technically ...
Friends
Be careful what you wish for…
SIGH. My closest, oldest, and dearest friends all live so very far away. And I really wanted to spend time with someone to de-compress from all the frantic let-me-show-you-the-highlights-of-California activity of the past few weeks. (This is a perfect example of my whiny prayer life, but that's not important right now.) My very favorite ...
After 4 cups of wine… am I Jewban? Or Cubish?
No. We're not Jewish. . . most of the time. . . but we were tonight. We had the wonderful pleasure of being asked to participate in a Passover Seder this evening. Our dear friends, Barry and Anne Koff and their kids, Jonathan and Shoshana, were our very gracious hosts and teachers. Seriously, we learned so much about the Passover rituals. ...
Finding Nemo (and everything else, too.)
It's not like I don't already have enough projects going on in my life. But this one I couldn't resist. If you're the holder of a Disneyland Passport (which we are) this will be as familiar a sight to you as it is to us.Most of our friends are also passholders and Lovers of All Things Disney.So last week Helen (my niece) calls me: "It's ...
A dinner to DIE for. . .
Meet my vampirish children:Dwayne Denartery and Anita Lotta Tai-Pei. ;-)(aka: Jonathan and Lucy as their murder mystery characters) Jonathan turned twelve a few days ago. And poor guy, he always gets the short end of the celebration stick around here, since his birthday is five days after Christmas. It's not that we don't ...
Afro-Cuban after all . . .
I thought I knew my mom inside and out, but she is still able to surprise and amaze me. (Hi everyone, it's me, Amy) Let me give you some background . . . One of my very dear and very beautiful friends, Sheila (Not the blond. That's my other friend, Ashli, but that's not important right now), works for her mother's non-profit organization ...
Es pa’l jalo uin
It's not about the dressing up and getting candy. Heck, I can do that any day. ;-) It's that now we have put Traditions in place. And they must be respected.First it's the trip to the pumpkin patch to choose the best carving pumpkins and I always make them pose behind the cut-outs. (They were much more willing when they were ...
What would you take?
Adam sent this to me yesterday via his phone with the message: "3 blocks away." I recognized the intersection immediately. My friend, Kristen lives at the end of that street and yes, they had to evacuate their home and are safe and staying with friends. (Thank you, God!) The story is the same all around us. My nieces in San ...
I’ll be there for you . . .
One of my favorite things about blogging is that I have a space where I can pay tribute to the people in my life whom I love. I have written before about my friend, Pam who, along with her husband Gene, lives in Hanford, a city (town? hamlet? I still can't figure this one out!) in central California. This was taken in 1977 in Pam's living ...
Feeling the love.
So, I was feeling a little blue today. Probably just tired. The last few weeks have been so busy for us with celebrations and I probably just need some downtime. And you know how it is when you start feeling down and you start feeling sorry for yourself?So there I am having my very own Pity Party and thinking (or maybe I was praying, or maybe ...
