As you know, we live a few area codes away from the nearest restaurants serving Cuban food. Of course, this has become the impetus for me to actually cook Cuban food regularly, but that's not important right now. Last week, Eric and I got to escape to Temecula's Wine Country for a few days. Temecula is only about an hour and a half drive ...
Lifestyle
Posts about everything going on in my life. Enjoy!
9 Things. Happy Father’s Day.
When it comes to holidays, particularly what I call "Hallmark Holidays," (those are the ones where you can usually get away with just giving a card, but that's not important right now) I have always encouraged my kids to take it a step higher and do something thoughtful and more heartfelt. Particularly for Father's Day. Dad has ...
Fabulous Summer Fun – Disney Style
Last week I was privileged to be a part of the kick-off for some really amazing summer fun at the Disneyland Resort. I feel sooo accidentally cool to be considered part of the "new media." We got to preview the new Little Mermaid ride, Ariel's Undersea Adventure which was as cute and clever as you may imagine.Sitting two ...
Exact change.
I've homeschooled my kids for years now. Ever since Lucy and Jonathan were both in elementary school. Last semester they both went to the Cooler-Than-Thou Local Art School. But the days there were way too long for people who were used to having lots of time to do their own creative stuff and they both independently decided they wanted to come ...
Marta’s Birthday Month®
I know. Everyone else celebrates their birthDAY. And some clever folks even celebrate Birthday Week, which I did, too, until I said to myself, "Self, we should try to see if we can drag out this birthday celebration stuff for the entire month of May." No, I don't really talk to myself that way....or maybe I do, but that's not ...
Voices from Mariel – a Giveaway
I'm often amazed at how little people here seem to know about the waves of Cuban immigrants refugees to this country. The older folks seem to remember that in the early 60's there were some displaced Cuban children that needed homes. This they only know if one of the children ended up in their neighborhood. I'm referring, of course, ...
Southern California Cuban Festival 2011 in San Dimas
The following post was written by Kikita. It's that time of year again! Time for the Cuban Festival! It's been a few years since I've been, but I'll definitely be there this year! So... COME AND DANCE WITH ME!(Seriously, if you're a blog reader and you decide to go to the festival and you do see me, please come up and say ...
Old Ladies in Hats and Royal Weddings
If I were to write about The Royal Wedding, I’m sure you’d be (rightly) thinking about the wedding that took place just yesterday, April 29, 2011 in England between Prince William and his lovely bride, Kate Middleton. Back in the day.... July 29, 1981, the Royal Wedding was all about the young (19!) and beautiful Diana marrying Prince Charles. ...
“Senk Got Ees Fraidei” (read in Spanglish, please)
My mom, Luza, who is 97 is still constantly reading and learning. She just recently learned that TGIF meant "Thank God it's Friday." She liked that. A lot. So every Friday when she comes over here, she starts the weekend with her version, which sounds more like: "Senk yu, Lort, eet ees Fraidei!" (But that's not ...
For Japan with Love
I'm sitting at my breakfast table with Jonathan noisily slurping the last of his cereal and Lucy busily writing out notecards for a school assignment. My life is extraordinary in its ordinariness. (<--Is that a word?) We're in California. Earthquakes happen here. We usually just "roll with them." And then there was ...
