Hola Chulas y Chulos! Do you have any plans for Cinco de Mayo? You know that holiday that isn’t Mexican Independence Day so most Mexicans don’t actually celebrate it, but it’s kind of a marketer’s dream in the U.S. so you’ll see displays at all the supermarkets and companies that seem to forget Mexicans exist […]
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Keep Your Wishes Positive (Wednesday Wishes)
View this post on Instagram A post shared by Claudya Martinez (@byclaudya) Frida helped me this week. Just being reminded of her helped. You see I’ve been in the danger zone this week, teetering on the edge of worry. That’s a horrible place to be. If you find yourself on the edge of worry, don’t […]
Be the Change: Volunteer With Your Kids
Thank you to Comcast for inviting my daughter and me to the 16th annual Comcast Cares Day on April 22 at Sutro Elementary School in San Francisco and for sponsoring this post. It takes a lot to get me up early on a weekend morning because I adore sleep. Sleep makes me deliriously happy and yet, […]
Palace of Fine Arts (Sundays In My City)
It was a beautiful weekend day and we were cruising around the city and somehow we ended up at the Palace of Fine Arts in the Marina. How could we not get out and walk around? Look at it! It’s absolutely stunning. Built in 1915 for the Panama Pacific International Exposition (PPIE), the Palace of […]
Elotes Gone Crazy (The Flying Chancla Report)
Hola Chulas y Chulos. How’s it chancleando? My chancla and I are in heaven right now because it’s actually chancla-weather in San Francisco. This has got us all excited about outdoor possibilities, which brings us to the topic of this week’s The Flying Chancla Report: elotes. I know it seems like a jump to go […]
Thoughts of Scarcity Are Wrong (Wednesday Wishes)
I make wishes because I want ALL THE THINGS. I want to grow, I want to have, I want to be, I want it all and I don’t feel the least bit guilty about it because I can have ALL THE THINGS that I want and there will still be plenty for everyone else who […]
Easter Eggs and Tie-Dye Shirts(Sundays In My City)
The plan was to color Easter eggs and we did. Once the eggs were colored there was still a lot of dye left and my girls were dying to keep dying something, anything. I told them to grab some t-shirts and rubber bands and they made tie-dye shirts. Now the girls match the Easter eggs […]
Best Tax Tweets and Memes for People Who Owe Money (The Flying Chancla Report)
Hola Chulas y Chulos! What are you up to? My flying chancla and I have been avoiding doing our taxes by looking up tax tweets and memes instead. What?! Don’t judge us, we’re totally going to get to the taxes, we just wanted to leave you with something funny before we go because taxes are no […]
Be Specific When You Wish (Wednesday Wishes)
I’ve been listening to the audio version of “The Science of Getting Rich” by Wallace D. Wattles and he gives an example about specificity when calling into existence what you want so that the Universe or God or Source Energy or whatever you call the force that makes us all one understands. In other words […]
Life-Size Balloon Person (Sundays In My City)
My daughters had an appointment with the dentist and this ginormous freaky-looking braces-wearing child made out of balloons was there waiting to greet us upon entering. I tried to have my daughters take a picture with it, but they weren’t having it. Especially my eldest. She kept shrieking, “I don’t like it! I don’t like […]