I'm having one of those accidentally cool things happening that happens to me occasionally because I live in a fun bloggy world. I am traveling to Miami for Blogalicious Weekend 2010. Celebrating Diversity in Social Media. (The words celebrating and social seem like they describe me perfectly. Am I right?) My trip is being sponsored in full by ...
Lifestyle
Posts about everything going on in my life. Enjoy!
The Taming of the Do – The Movie
Hi. I’m Marta and I have naturally curly hair. (“Hi, Marta.”) I know my hair looks smooth and straight in all the photos you've ever seen of me, but that's because I go through great pains and pay big bucks to get it done. And I realized as I was writing this that I started straightening it about a year before I started blogging. So you ...
Merchandising is not the same as Truth
Next week marks the anniversary of the death of mass-murderer Che Guevara. Many of us have had more than our share of run-ins with ignorant hipsters sporting t-shirts and messenger bags with the idealized image of the "revolutionary poster boy." Like most Cubans, I'm not shy about offering the truth of who Che was and why their ...
Hot! Hot! Hot! (a mini-rant)
On Monday, the 27th of September, we here in Southern California experienced the gosh-darndest Hottest Stinking Day of the Year. This is the thermometer (excuse me, Comfortmeter) in our backyard.For those of you who are impaired when it comes to reading old-school-liquid-filled thermometers, the red liquid (possibly alcohol or mercury; both ...
I’ve Been Spotted!
I'm excited to announce that My Big, Fat, Cuban Family is one of the nominees for Best Personal and Family Blog (I know. Shut up!) by Just Spotted 2010 Orange County Blog Awards. Thanks, guys! Please go to their site (here's the link) and vote for My Big, Fat, Cuban Family. Please vote before Sunday, September 12th at 11:59 pm, because ...
Gleeks in Training
Lucy is a senior in high school this year. We've been talking about college options for a while now. But our conversations began in earnest at the beginning of this year. She's already taken a few courses at the community college level, but what did she want to do? Where would she be interested in going? What schools best provided what ...
Seeing worlds in a grain of sand…
As you know, my childhood summers always involved the beach somehow. From the perfection that is Varadero to the surf in Santa Monica, every summer that I can recall was spent at the beach. Of the many happy beach memories I have, however, one trumps them all. I still remember the magical moment when my dad filled my plastic bucket with the ...
Guest Contributor – that makes me sound taller, right? ;-)
Like I mentioned in an earlier post, I sometimes find myself in various corners of the world-wide-web. Today I have the distinct pleasure of being a Guest Contributor (<--doesn't that make me sound taller?) over at the wonderful Mommy Maestra site. Monica is doing a phenomenal job of not only homeschooling her own children bilingually, ...
She’s a Grand Old Flag
So, we're on our Beach Vacation. That's code for Marta-is-doing-nothing-but-eating-and-sitting-in-the-sun-thankyouverymuch. ;-) Our home away from home is exactly 238 steps from the sand and we've been enjoying every minute of sunshine and surf and major do-nothingness. But the beach here at Del Mar is a bit quirky. First of ...
Link Love
I've been blogging here at MBFCF for almost four years (Wow! That's like high school!) now. I love blogging as an a creative outlet. Not only because it's my blog and I can write pretty much whatever I want, but also because I get feedback. And for the most part, that feedback is positive, which makes me happy. I enjoy blogging ...
