In my dreams, I never thought I'd be... a) Blogging. (seriously, who blogs? =D)b) Still going strong after 2 years. (2 whole years!!) To date I've written over 600 posts and you've responded with over 2300 comments. And I love that you follow me over to Babalú every other Thursday to try my latest recipes. We are SOOO ...
creative stuff
Right Brain Dominance in Happy Wives
My husband is pretty brilliant. You could argue that that's a given since he was obviously smart enough to marry me, but that goes without saying. ;-) The official title for what he does is "Internet Marketing" which is cyberspace code for "He works to get his clients onto the first page of the search engines, such as ...
Celebrating birthdays in Middle-earth
NOTE: If you know what I mean when I refer to Middle-earth, and you consider yourself a Tolkien uber-geek, then read on.... (If not, then come back in a few days when I will be posting a delicious recipe for a Cuban Pudín de Pan or Cuban bread pudding). ;-) You would think that for all the fuss we go through that it's a family ...
Yes, I do live in a Pottery Barn catalog. (I wish)
I'm not jealous. I'm not.I know what it looks like. A spread from a Pottery Barn Catalog.But you're wrong.This was our Fourth of July picnic. Here in Orange County.Yes, that is teak furniture. And Tommy Hilfiger quilts. And fresh flowers. (not jealous at all!)I felt like I had fallen into a fabulous Lifestyle Magazine. (Heavy Sigh)And no, I had ...
My Cuban Roots
Family history fascinates me. Maybe more so because we lost our home and family so many years ago when we left Cuba.There's that familiar tension again of living "life on the hyphen." That feeling of being 100% Cuban and 100% American. The question haunts me sometimes: What would my life have been like if. . .. . . there had been ...
Haikus R Us
My niece Natalie has so much going for her. Ah! To be eighteen! She was so little; I thought she'd be taller now. Happy Birthday, Nat!Aunt Marti's so weird. Her haikus are ...
Finding Nemo (and everything else, too.)
It's not like I don't already have enough projects going on in my life. But this one I couldn't resist. If you're the holder of a Disneyland Passport (which we are) this will be as familiar a sight to you as it is to us.Most of our friends are also passholders and Lovers of All Things Disney.So last week Helen (my niece) calls me: "It's ...
Places to go. Things to do. Kids to embarrass. =D
I've been keeping up pretty nicely with that whole taking one picture every day project. Actually, I love having my camera with me 24/7. In fact, I have it with me so much it's almost like a family member now. We're all seated at the dinner table, and one of the kids asks:"Where's your camera?" And it's weird when you blog (like I ...
Five Hundred Twenty-Five Thousand Six Hundred Minutes
I take photos every day. Every day.Okay, maybe not every single day. But most days. ;-) I took photos every single day of December, and it was pretty effortless for me because my camera was attached to me like an unusual black appendage growing out of my forehead. But this year, I'm determined to take a photo a day to document my year ...
A dinner to DIE for. . .
Meet my vampirish children:Dwayne Denartery and Anita Lotta Tai-Pei. ;-)(aka: Jonathan and Lucy as their murder mystery characters) Jonathan turned twelve a few days ago. And poor guy, he always gets the short end of the celebration stick around here, since his birthday is five days after Christmas. It's not that we don't ...
