Hi everyone! It’s me,Amy. You know, the oldest of Marta’s kids. I hijacked mom's blog because I was having a moment today and wanted to share. I have this game I play with my friends (and myself). The game is all about Cuban Appreciation. As you can see, I have inspired my non-Cuban friends to have Cuban Pride. :-) I will have what I like ...
Lifestyle
Posts about everything going on in my life. Enjoy!
“Isn’t that special?”
I love comedy.And, happily, the local Improv is only about 5 minutes away and I am on their mailing list. Seriously. We go. A lot. I just think that some good belly laughs are almost as healing as a good cry. I think it hurts in the same place, too. ;-)Sometimes I will get a last minute email telling about someone trying out some new material and ...
How many Cubans does it take to change a lightbulb?
I think it's a man-thing. Somewhere in their genetic code is a 6th sense about energy-efficiency. So, Eric gets it into his head that we must replace all the antique incandescents in the house with those cute, curly things that are supposed to save us tons on our electric bill. So, this afternoon he marches on down to Lowe's to buy enough of those ...
“Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world . . .”
There were only about a dozen or so houses in the tiny port town of Manatí, Cuba in the early 1930's. This one held a family with the last name Perez-Puelles. The father of this household was the customs official of that little town. He was my grandfather. The few residents of the town were all connected because of their service in the shipyards. ...
¿Que Pasa, Jessica Rabbit?
Won't bore you with the details of the chest x-rays and the inhaler and the cortisone shot. The only plus to this whole pneumonia thing is that I sound just like Jessica Rabbit. ;-)("I'm not bad. I'm just drawn that way.") The fever has finally broken, but I still have to lay low for a while before I'm back to normal.For my ...
57,000 words
If you've been following my blog, you know that Lucy has been busy writing a novel. The original plan was to write it in 30 days, but when the month of April was over, she still had more story in her.So she kept at it and kept at it. I need to just insert here that I was in Miami all last week and that now I have pneumonia, and there are no ...
Be it ever so humble . . .
I thought I was just a little weary from my trip. Perhaps jet-lagged. Or maybe just having caffeine withdrawals after the 12-cafecitos a day habit I developed in Miami. That would explain why I had such low energy, and my joints were aching. But now I"m coughing and the fever is hovering at around 102°. =( I just got out of my bed (with ...
For the love of Bustelo
I don't consider myself a coffee snob. I live in Mission Viejo, California. There are more hip coffee places than police in our fair city. I swear. But I do have friends who would refer to themselves as coffee snobs (you know who you are). But I, am Cuban. And there is nothing (nothing!) like a perfectly made "coladito." I, ...
La Cocinera de Babalú
I have dozens of cookbooks in my kitchen library.Dozens.I have quite a few Cuban cookbooks and countless family recipes on cards. I learned to cook Cuban using Nitza Villapol's book (what self-respecting Cuban woman didn't??) and trying to re-create stuff I had tasted in restaurants.Cooking is just one of my hobbies. And, of course, cooking Cuban ...
It’s in her blood
Blonde hair, blue eyes and a dazzling smile. [heavy sigh] That's Amy, my firstborn, apparently in Cuba, sitting on the wall of the Malecon overlooking Havana Bay and the Castillo del Morro.Notice how she looks right at home. (This fabulous photo op was part of Cuba Nostalgia.) She can cook a mean arroz con pollo.She holds her own bilingually.And ...
