My very best friend, Pam P. (how cool is it to still have a best friend at my age??) and Lover of All Things Disney is having a birthday today. You can read about how much I love her here. She is celebrating her birthday at Disneyland (where else?) this week, so in honor of this auspicious occasion, I thought she would enjoy having her very ...
Cuban-American Life
I hope you enjoy my posts about my crazy and wonderful Cuban-American life.
Finding my style
(I'm sharing the following because faithful MBFCF reader, George, was curious, and well, I'll pretty much shamelessly write about anything, but that's not important right now. But, please remember, Mr. Curious George, the blog reader, not the monkey, =D.... you asked for it...) Hi, I'm Marta and I'm a Cuban Online Shopping ...
And then…. the Cuban Family moved in.
Years ago, my big, fat, Cuban family moved to a sleepy peanut-butter-and-jelly neighborhood in Anaheim, California. Our house was at the end of a cul-de-sac where the other families had been living forever. They had their own neighborhood traditions, including a 4th of July Block Party. Life was predictable and quiet and everyone liked it that ...
Looking for love
Hello my people! It's Kikita here. I'm in serious need of your help. Now, the following may be difficult to believe, but I promise it's the truth. Yes, the beautiful Kikita is still VERY single. (shocking. I know.) "And I'm gonna be 30! . . . SOMEDAY!" (When Harry Met Sally) Anyway, I'm currently facing a couple of obstacles in my ...
The Wish
I was born in May of 1955. At the end of that summer, which my family was spending in Varadero Beach, Cuba, as usual, a friend of my mom's came to visit to meet the new baby. Her name was Conchitica. [NOTE: "Concha" is the Spanish word for shell, as in a Conch Shell.] This particular "Concha" was the third in that descendency to receive the ...
Se dice…”Peet-sah”
Husband: "This is really good. What kind of pizza is it?” I make homemade pizza all the time, so that part doesn't surprise him. It's the distinctly Cuban flavor that gives him pause.... Me: “It’s a Cuban pizza, of course.” Husband: “Who are you trying to kid?? There’s no such thing as a Cuban pizza.” “No such thing??” ...
Fashion Icon
August, 1960. Varadero Beach in Cuba. My beautiful sister, Miriam. According to the stamp on the back of the photo, it was just a few days after her birthday in 1960.She was so proud to be photographed on the beach in her gorgeous new Catalina Swimsuit - "Styled for the Stars of Hollywood." Catalina was the brand that supplied ...
Real jewelry AND expensive perfume? You must be Cuban! ;-)
Imagine a beautiful young lady emerging from a giant clam shell a la Botticelli's The Birth of Venus - tastefully dressed, of course, but maybe she could actually get the full-body hair extensions... (never mind.) Ormaybe the young lovely could be lowered hydraulically on a flower-covered swing, dropping rose petals from a wicker basket as ...
Every picture tells a story
I'm the youngest of six. Six kids. Nice, big, old-school Catholic family. By the time I was born my two oldest sisters were teenagers. I've got a pretty good handle on how odd it is having toddlers and teenagers in the house at once. And how it might pose a bit of a dilemma getting them all together in front of a camera. We had a ...
Surreality bites.
So we had a wonderful weekend in Mexico celebrating our anniversary. I didn't have my camera with me, so all I had was my phone for picture taking, and I was so glad because, seriously, you wouldn't believe half of the stuff we saw. Baja is like another planet. With the exception of the Rosarito Bed and Breakfast - emphasis on ...
