A little Cuban history..... Carlos Manuel de Céspedes del Castillo (April 18, 1819 – February, 1874) was a Cuban planter who freed his slaves, and made the declaration of Cuban independence in 1868 which started the Ten Years' War. Céspedes was a landowner and lawyer in Eastern Cuba, near Bayamo, who purchased La Demajagua, an estate ...
Lifestyle
Posts about everything going on in my life. Enjoy!
Spring-Breaking
We're Spring-Breaking this week. I'm pretty tired from the whirlwind of just-before-spring-break activities We attended a Passover Seder at the home of some dear Jewish friends... And, of course, participated in the traditional Egg Dyeing Ritual at my niece, Helen's house on Sunday... It seems most of our activities last week ...
Feliz Pascua
I wish you all a Happy and Blessed Easter! (You can ignore my earlier post....Thanks, TypePad Help Desk! =D) ...
Picture this…
[TypePad, my usually extremely reliable blogging software, won't let me insert any pictures today and I'm extremely frustrated, but I decided to go ahead with the post I was planning and let you use your own imagination.] =( So, just picture this... I created a cute "Happy Easter" graphic using my Wacom Tablet and ...
I Called My Mother OR Terms of Endearment – Part Deux
I would like to take the moment to announce that I, Kikita, am alive and well. Feel free to call off the search. I appreciate your concern. I have called my mother. The questions remaining are as follows: 1. Where have I been? 2. What did I call her? 1. Work has been busier, so I am not as readily availabe for a chat in the middle of the day and ...
How to Cha-Cha
You know those uber-dorky people who have a dictionary and an atlas sitting near the dinner table so that they can look stuff up when they start arguing during dinner about ways to pronounce words, or the capital of someplace, or what exactly a rhombus is? We are those people. By the way... In geometry a rhombus or rhomb is a quadrilateral whose ...
The Taming of the Do – Part 1
DISCLAIMER: The following post may sound like a commercial for different hair products, but it's not really. I just added the photos and links because I'm a giver. ;-) Hair products are a big thing at our house. We have to have different kinds of shampoos and things because all of our hair types are so different. Lucy just got her ...
One of these things is not like the others….
Do you remember this sorting song from Sesame Street? One of these things is not like the others,One of these things just doesn't belong, Can you tell which thing is not like the others By the time I finish my song?Can you guess which of my essentials is not like the other? 1) My glasses.2) My phone.3) My purse.4) My garlic press.You ...
Happiness delivered to my door
Another delightful blog-hijacking brought to you by Lucy Darby: Last week I purchased these adorable 1950s-retro-nerd glasses from this fabulous online store called Red Velvet Art. If you take a look at yesterday's post, you'll see that I'm wearing them. But I thought they deserved a little back story. Or, as my English teacher would ...
It’s a beautiful morning
I sometimes feel like I do a lot.(and I do, but that's not important right now.) I set out the other day to document a regular school/work day around here. (okay, I'm not going to give you all the graphic and gory details. Just the broad strokes.) Here's how it usually goes.... Every Morningby MartaI get up. (Okay, so ...
