I love my garden.I love getting my hands dirty as I plant and re-pot and freshen my flower beds. It's not that I don't own gardening gloves. I do. Multiple pairs. But there's something magical and healing about feeling the soil on my hands and touching the roots as I gently press the plants I'm re-potting into their new larger containers. ...
Cuban-American Life
I hope you enjoy my posts about my crazy and wonderful Cuban-American life.
The Surprising Pixar Press Event for Inside Out
Back in January when I had the sweet opportunity to visit Pixar and Skywalker Ranch (I will drop this into any conversation when given the chance, but that's not important right now), I had the good fortune to preview about 20 minutes of the new Disney/Pixar film, Inside Out. Read all about that here.This preview whetted my ...
The Battle of the Cuban Heritage Day Tshirts is ON!
Our good friends at Habana Brand Clothing have done it again and hit it out of the park (pun intended) with this wonderful one-of-a-kind-collector's-edition Tshirt for this year's Cuban Heritage Day at Dodger Stadium. The game will be on Sunday, July 12th, but the Tshirts are already on sale and you should get one ASAP, before they run out. ...
I Love Coffee – A Winner
One of the most fun things about doing giveaways is reading over your comments. When I do, I often wish I could give every single person who entered a prize, but sadly, that's not possible, at least today it's not.Anyway, the way I choose a winner is I take the number of comments (excluding any duplicates) and enter that number into the True Random ...
I Love Coffee… – A Giveaway
I'm wearing a hairnet. And I'm posting the photo on the internet for the world to see. And I'm pretty okay with it. WHO AM I??I have a wonderful giveaway for you today. But let me just tell you how it came about.The Cuban Heritage Day Committee (of which I am a proud member) had a meeting at the Gaviña Coffee Roasters plant. You ...
SPAM® Bag of Fun Winner
You always manage to surprise me. Because just when I thought maybe I was the only one who had any memory of the deliciousness of SPAM®, you guys bring the good stuff.Croquetas made with SPAM®?? COUNT ME IN! The winner of the Wonderful SPAM® Bag and all of its Spammy contents is... ...
Marta. Version 6.0
I recently celebrated having traveled around the sun for 21,900 days (give or take a couple of leap years). I had a lot of assumptions and deep thoughts about this particular milestone in my life.I'm 60 years old.Here are 20 of my Big Thoughts about this journey of life.1) I thought that I would be further along in certain places. ...
The Dodgers and The Cubanity
Disclaimer: This post contains an inordinate amount of selfie-type photos of me. Forgive me. I was so over-the-top excited about this night and being where I was and meeting who I met. It's a Cuban thing. Imagine a stadium full of Cubans, all noisy and celebrating and munching on Dodger dogs. Picture them stopping to do the mandatory ...
Celebrating Kids and Books Featuring Alma Flor Ada
It is my great pleasure to announce that I'm participating in a fabulous celebration of children and books called . The Blog Hop features the very best of Latino children's book illustrators and authors. It's very cool to be a part of such a great group and program. 13 Latino authors and illustrators have been paired up ...
SALE! Get Mami a Cuban Food Poster For Mother’s Day
I first want to thank all of you who have supported my Cuban food poster. I love every time one of you sends me a photo of your framed poster and when you tell me how much you're enjoying it. It makes me feel like I'm right in your kitchen with you. (Not in a weird way, of course.)I've been hearing from many of you that the 16 x 20 ...
