A couple of years ago Mami decided to do an art journal. She had all these creative exercises . . . one of which was called "Self-Portrait Tuesdays." The idea was to get used to seeing yourself on film. You know how we all are . . . we love to hide from the camera. Nobody likes how they look in pictures. This was an exercise in getting ...
Cuban-American Life
I hope you enjoy my posts about my crazy and wonderful Cuban-American life.
I’ve got some good news and some bad news…
I'll tell you the bad news first. My camera died.My beloved Olympus E-300 Evolt won't shoot anymore. Yes, the one I use EVERY SINGLE DAY to document my extraordinarily ordinary life. It was quite sudden, too.It was working just fine.And then it just stopped. Just like that. No more pictures for me, Precious. (She said, in a sad, ...
I did it, I got a facebook. I am a facebooker. I am facebooking.
This is Kikita. For the past few weeks it seems I haven't been about to get through one day without being asked: "Do you facebook?""Are you a facebooker?""Are you on facebook?" And every now and then there is the snide (ok, they never go so far as snide, but there is a definite tone going on) comment, "Oh, ...
Beverly Hills Cuban
You know I live in a bubble, right? A sweet little suburban bubble called Mission Viejo. We are located halfway between Los Angeles and San Diego and our fair city is only about 20 years old. Which isn't even old in dog years. Eric and I spent the weekend in L.A. - our primary objective was to see Jim Gaffigan, the comedian, ...
WARNING: Cubanism can strike at any moment!
My friend Pam lives in the town (hamlet? community?) of Hanford in Central California. She and her husband, Gene, go for walks in the evening and this is what they see: It's a toad. A TOAD, people. Can you say, "Gross me out in twelve different ways???" Eeeww! Eric and I go on a nightly walk and this is what we see here ...
Cucufate Explained
The following interactive explanation has been brought to you by the lovely Kikita =D First, click here (then come back): CUCUFATE "Abuela, de donde salio cucufate?" "Cucufate es un santo." WHAT?!?! I asked Señor Google. It's True. Cucufate is the Spanish version of Saint Cucuphas. Who knew that Saints could be ...
“blog hijackery” (noun)
It's not fair. Every week, I have to pound out grammatically correct essays with perfect sentence structure. I have to analyze the nuances of punctuation and the proper; way to use; a semi-colon. (Oh yeah. This is Lucy. The other daughter. I'll come up with my own Cuban-sounding nickname another day.) But my MOM gets to write about ...
People are talking…
You know I sent out a few of my cookbooks earlier this month - to the MBFCF 2-Year Blogiversary Winners and of course, to my darling Desi Arnaz, Jr. (sigh). This is what the recipients had to say about My Big, Fat, Cuban Family Cookbook:Hi Marta, The cookbook arrived this morning! I am so excited! It is gorgeous. I love all the photos ...
Chronological dis-order
My mom (94) has a giant stack of scrapbooks. When I say giant, I mean, if you were to stack them all one on top of the other, they would measure at least 20 feet! Giant stack. In them she keeps greeting cards she's received over the years, matchbooks, letters, newspaper clippings, birth and wedding announcements, artwork done by the kids, voters ...
Celebrating Summer
We So Cal people don't really "do" weather. We just don't know how. When the weather cools a bit, (which it really hasn't considering we are about a month into Fall, but that's not important right now) we pull out socks to wear with our flip-flops and exclaim "Fall is here!" (you think I'm kidding, ...
