This week my family and I were invited to Arguello restaurant in the Presidio. The Presidio, which is now part of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area, was a military post for 218 years. It spans 1,491 acres and is visited by over 5 million people a year. There are residents, commercial tenants, museums, recreational […]
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Wish for It and Work for It (Wednesday Wishes)
I think wishing gets a bad rap and it’s not fair. It’s like when you say, “I wish…blah, blah, blah,” people assume that you’re lazy and want things to fall in your lap. Maybe some people use the word wish in that way, but not me. I wish for the things I want as a […]
Summer of Love Celebration (Sundays In My City)
San Francisco is celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Summer of Love. In honor of that summer in 1967 when the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood was a countercultural hub filled with artists, musicians, writers and activists keen on on challenging the status quo, the de Young Museum is hosting The Summer of Love Experience: Art, Fashion, and […]
Elote Pizza Combines Mexican Street Corn and Pizza
Hola Chulas y Chulos! My flying chancla and I are over here salivating because we are hungry and as we were going through the internet looking for things to share with you we came across elote pizza. Say what?! That’s like if one person was walking down the street chompin’ on elote and bumped into […]
Nothing Wrong with Wishing and Praying (Wednesday Wishes)
“Why not pray?” someone asked on Facebook when I put out a call for wishes and my friend Sabz responded with, “Why not do both? Nothing wrong with wishing and praying.” Agreed. Or why not let me call it wishing and you can call it praying? Honestly, it’s the same thing. It’s all about putting […]
A Strong Father (Sundays In My City)
We came home tired after a wonderful time at our friends’ home and circled and circled for parking. When we finally found parking, our eldest daughter started complaining that it wouldn’t be fair if her sister got carried home and she didn’t. My husband tried to explain that it was easier to carry someone that’s […]
Frida Kahlo Inspired Gifts on Amazon
Hola Chulas y Chulos! This week’s The Flying Chancla Report is a roundup of Frida Kahlo gifts on Amazon that my flying chancla and I are into. All of the product links provided are affiliate links. Frida Kahlo Backpack, $48 Frida’s got your back with this fun daypack Frida Kahlo Enamel Pin, $12 Jean […]
We’re All in This Together (Wednesday Wishes)
I think we often forget that we’re all in this together. We think that we have to make it on our own or that other people can get in our way, but that, my dears, is fallacious. Not only are we all in this together, we actually can’t do it alone. This unity is why […]
A Portrait of Frida Kahlo in Chicle and More Frida Inspired Art
This weekend my family and I got to see some awesome artwork sin querer queriendo. It was such a happy accident. See we were out and I was so hungry I was starting to get hangry. We were trying to decide where to eat and ended up at our fail-safe family favorite restaurant: Puerto Alegre. […]
Latina Mom’s Guide to Training Kids to Clean (The Flying Chancla Report)
Hola Chulas y Chulos! I hope things are going better for you than they are for me. This week’s The Flying Chancla Report, entitled Latina Mom’s Guide to Training Kids to Clean, is a result of my flying chancla getting on my case and threatening to hit me. Me?! Can you believe that? My chancla […]