Forty years ago this day, I was a 14 year old kid who along with my family (and the rest of the world) was glued to our TV set, watching a fuzzy picture and holding our breaths as we waited for Neil Armstrong to take his famous first steps. I vividly remember the moment he stepped on the moon and the scratchy voice coming across those thousands of ...
Current Affairs
I Can Do It!
Yet another PSA (public service announcement) with a a really cool twist: The Institute for Women Entrepreneurs is hosting a local event for Women entrepreneur's in Orange County, called: The Power Within...Women's Summit 2009They are saying it's: The largest, most dynamic cross-cultural Women’s Summit in Orange County! It ...
Birthday Musings from a Golden goddess
Obviously, I, Kikita is the Golden goddess (little "g"), wrote this post. My birthday is two weeks away. I'm going to be 26. TWENTY-SIX!! I am a HUGE fan of birthdays. I am the midnight caller singing a cheesy song (because the traditional "Happy Birthday" just wouldn't be enough). My philosophy is that a birthday is ...
Memorial Day
Eric and I just recently returned from taking our teenage kids, Lucy and Jonathan on a trip to Washington D.C. We saw and learned so much that we were at times overwhelmed with the amount of information coming our way. We’re still working on writing about and documenting our trip, but the events of one particular day have been difficult to ...
Ya viene llegando…
My mom gave me a piece of Cuban history recently. It's a list of names from 1960. The list was of a group of unaccompanied minors who were sent here to the U.S. by their desperate parents to protect them from Castro's plans for the youth of Cuba. The exodus of 14,000 minors was dubbed Operacíon Pedro Pan. (Operation Peter Pan.)1960. ...
Blogging for breakfast
I never realized when I started blogging that there would be perks. But truly, blogging has opened up worlds that would not have been available to me if I had remained quietly anonymous in my little piece of the Bubble that we call The O.C. I also get some requests from people who would not normally contact me otherwise. For example, I just ...
Words with the Older and Wiser
Kikita here. I didn’t watch the inauguration yesterday. I was in bed with a migraine.My abuela, on the other hand, watched the whole thing. So this morning she started to tell me all about it. All about the people cheering, and the beautiful speeches, and how the word “change” was in every other sentence . . . and how it reminded her so much ...
The Man Child
I have some well-chosen adjectives that describe my kids. What I happen to love about the following list of adjectives is that they were used by other people: Aunts, cousins, teachers, friends, grandparents, neighbors, tween-girls - to describe my son, Jonathan. I know this because I have been "collecting" them for the past few ...
When I sang that I was dreaming of a white Christmas, I didn’t really mean it.
No disrespect to Bing Crosby or anything, but I never knew what a "White Christmas" was all about. (Although, I think the film, White Christmas with Bing Crosby & Danny Kaye is one of my absolute favorite must-see holiday movies and I totally think it's genius, not only because Rosemary Clooney gets to wear all those ...
Mr. Prieto goes to Washington
I don't usually get political on my blog. (Even so, you don't have to guess too much about my beliefs, but that's not important right now).I am a Cuban refugee. I am an exile. I am a (very proud) naturalized American citizen.Those three things are as much a part of me as my blue eyes and sense of humor. The Universal ...
