I have spent the last three days thinking about what I want to say about our experience in San Antonio and Cooking With the Troops. My family has talked and talked and rehashed almost every detail of our weekend, multiple times. And I'm still at a loss for words to describe all that we experienced. I'm just going to post lots of photos ...
My Big, Fat, Cuban Family
Family is everything to me. I love them more than words can describe.
It’s a Small (Cuban) World After All
You would think I'd be used to it by now because it happens everywhere I go. But I'm not. (Used to it, that is.) Here's how the scene usually plays out: Me: “You're from Cuba? So am I.” Cuban Person I Just Met: “I'm from *insert town in Cuba* and I know your *mother, father, sibling, dog's cat*” Me: “Shut. Up.” So last ...
Amy has totally lost it.
My daughter, Amy Kikita has been working hard these past few months to lose weight. She has to date lost 30 pounds and the scale is still moving to the left every day.I admire the courage it has taken her to face her own fears and presuppositions about what this will mean to her and her life. Today on the Tiki Tiki, she shares her essay titled ...
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 ...
The Bible – the Original Novela
As you know, my mom is 97. I always feel compelled to tell her age when I'm writing about her because:It makes the story I'm about to tell that much more amazing. Nobody makes 97 year olds anymore like the one that happens to be my mother. ;-)Luza (my 97 year old mom - See? I did it again) is constantly reading. She always has a book ...
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 ...
100
As you know, my mom, Luza, is 97 years old. She has four siblings who are all in their 90's, except for one... Her big brother just celebrated his 100th birthday in Miami this past weekend.Tio Fernando is one hundred years old. (I know. Shut up!) I don't know what genetic material these people are made of, I just hope I have a tenth of ...
Always Right
Blog hijacking shall commence in 3... 2... 1... Hi. This is Lucy. My mom doesn’t know that I’m posting this. But she does know that I love to tell stories. I got that from her. And there’s a beautiful story I know about my mom that I would like to share. But because ...
Celebrating Abuela
I never knew my grandparents. We left Cuba when I was so very young that I barely remember my grandmothers. I think my dad's parents had already passed away by the time I was born. And I have just the few mental snapshots that a five year old can retain of my mom's mother. Here's a beautiful old photo of her, my maternal grandmother, ...
The First Born
The experience of having a child is possibly the most traumatic, amazing, delightful and life-changing event of any woman's life. If you have more than one child, you are a little bit better prepared for child #2 or #3 or #4 (or #6 or #8...). Having that first one, however, is so incredibly new and so incredibly different from anything ...
