We have been very lucky in my big, fat, Cuban family. We always seem to equalize when we lose someone. What I mean by that is that when there has been divorce or death, it is inevitably followed by a wedding or a birth. "God gives. God takes. God's name be ever blessed." ...
Cuban-American Life
I hope you enjoy my posts about my crazy and wonderful Cuban-American life.
The sweet part
My brother, Rudy, and his beautiful wife, Carmen flew in from Texas yesterday - for the funeral. "I'm going to make arroz con pollo," Amy declared authoritatively. (She made enough arroz con pollo to feed the small army that is my big, fat, Cuban family, but that's not important right now.) First, Eric and I arrive with the ...
The word of the day is “Anticlimax”
We love going to Disneyland. It's conveniently located just a few miles from us and we conveniently have annual passes so we can go anytime. And we never get tired of it.It's not just the rides, but we love walking around and seeing things. I love taking my camera because something different and fun will always catch my eye. Even though it ...
FORTY-SEVEN YEARS is a long time to wait for change
These are my very young parents. They would have been in their 30's in this picture.It is my father's birthday. He would have been 97 today. (He passed away in 1999.) But something else happened on his birthday back in 1961 on this day that we would commemorate long after he passed away. Our family arrived in Miami on February ...
Language Lessons Five-O
Amy is always gushing about how certain words in Spanish just sound really great - never mind the meaning - it's the sound that counts. She loves words like "maldita" and "vacilon." The same thing happens to me with Hawaiian words and names. It's a lovely melodious language and it's fun to try to say things in ...
The Rest of the Week
Eric is taking me to Hawaii for the rest of the week.... or..... The Rest of the Week. Did you see that? Just a few well-placed highlights and capitals and BWAMMO! our mini-getaway was instantly converted into A MAJOR EVENT. All that to say this: MAHALO and A-LO-HA! Marta (I hope to blog from The Island. Unless we get LOST.) ;-) ...
When life gives you lemons. . . Go to the Happiest Place on Earth!
Completely distracted. Completely. Because I'm in mourning. Or maybe I'm in denial. They say you do crazy things when you're in denial. . . My PC has died an ugly, bloody death. Here is his carcass, sitting impotently on my floor. I did call someone to come and retrieve my documents and memory, but it's still pretty dead. I don't know why I ...
Mama no habla de nada. . . slacker!
When I was growing up my parents always insisted we speak Spanish at home. I'm grateful to them because I'm fluent in both Spanish and English now and I don't have an accent in either language. (Except, of course, I speak Spanish fast and furiously and drop the s's on the ends of my words, but that's not important right now. =D) The ...
Brujeria? or How much power does my abuelita actually wield?
Amy here. I have a burning question that I thought maybe some of mom's Cuban blog readers could answer. Here's the story: My Cuban Abuela curses and blesses me. The blessings go something like this: "Algun dia tu nieta hara lo mismo por ti." ("One day your own granddaughter will do the same for you.") That sounds ...
Today’s word is “dysfunctional.” Discuss.
It's been one week since my big, fat Cuban family had a party. It was the 185 year birthday thing last week here at my house. But that was a week ago. One. whole. week. So around Thursday afternoon the phone starts ringing . . . "Who's Mami with this weekend?" "Alina." "Card party at Alina's!" Okay, so my family is a ...
