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 ...
Lifestyle
Posts about everything going on in my life. Enjoy!
Today My Mom is Twenty-One . . .
. . . with thirty-three years of experience. 33!Obviously, this is Kikita and I'm here to write a properly effusive post about my Mom for her birthday.The problem is, I am in no mood to talk about her. I just got back from Miami and am feeling the need to talk about me. The morning that I left for my 5 day trip, my friend giving me a ride 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. ...
Tiki Tiki – stories with cultura, color and sabor
I'm involved in a lot of projects.But I'm particularly proud of this one: It's a new magazine-style site called the Tiki Tiki. (I'm soooo excited about this!) The best part of this project is that I have had the privilege and pleasure to collaborate with three amazingly talented and passionate Latinas: Carrie, Carla and ...
Getting Connected
I, Kikita, am standing here FLOORED. I was walking by a Verizon Wireless booth and I see people laughing and others crying. Everybody is on the phone. Obviously, Verizon is here to promote themselves, but what are they doing to these people?? As it turns out, Verizon was letting them make free 15 minute phone calls to anywhere . . . Mostly, Cuba. ...
Here I am!
Kikita here! I am testing this whole "mobile blogging" thing. I spent all day yesterday at the Babalu Blog booth in Cuba Nostalgia. It feels like a family reunion and everybody misses Mami (myselfincluded). If you are in town, feel free to stop by and say hi to me tonight. I will be back at the Babalu booth representing MBFCF as best I ...
On top of the world
A confession: I'm afraid of heights.Okay, well maybe not AFRAID-afraid, but when I get to a high place my knees start tingling and my neck gets a weird tense-as-a-brick feeling. So I don't choose to climb up to high places much. But I'm in New York City. Home of the High Places That Make Your Knees Feel Weird. ;-) And I don't ...
Energy Crisis
I don't think I could live in this city. This "...city that never sleeps."I'm an extrovert. I get my energy from people and my surroundings. And trust me, New York has A LOT of energy. (And I have enough trouble sleeping in my own bed in my own sleepy part of the Bubble, but that's not important right now.) But we're ...
How random is my life today?
We spent the morning touring Mt. Vernon - the home of George Washington in Alexandria, Virginia. In the afternoon, we visited the US Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland. We just made a quick stop at a Rest Stop/Food Court off the Turnpike somewhere in Delaware. (Okay, so this last stop kind of weirded me out a little. Well, actually...a lot...but ...
No ‘Flux capacitor’ needed
Memory is a funny thing. It can be triggered by a smell, a sound, or (for us visual people) something we see.So here we are in Washinton DC navigating around the Smthsonian museum complex and dodging all the other school groups that are here at this time of year. The Air and Space Museum was fascinating. (Actually, ALL of the Smithsonian museums ...
