Welcome wonderful wishers. It’s time to manifest abundance in our lives by making some Wednesday Wishes. Join me! Here’s what I’m wishing for this week… For myself: Money has been flowing toward me this week. Keep the flow coming. I’ve been trying to get through to the IRS and haven’t been able to, could you […]
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Planting Carrots in Our Backyard (Sundays In My City)
My 8-year-old daughter planted carrot seeds in our backyard all by herself while her father, who is a gardener, observed. In about 70 to 80 day, we’ll have homegrown carrots. I love that she knows she can grow her own food and has been doing it since she was young enough to walk. San Francisco, CA […]
The Flying Chancla Report: Nasty Women and Bad Hombres Unite!
Hola Chulas y Chulos! This week’s The Flying Chancla Report is dedicated to all the Nasty Women and Bad Hombres who get mierda done in this country. May they continue to thrive and drive this country forward, regardless of how a certain presidential nominee keeps trying to besmirch them. Scroll through to see the flattering truth […]
Wednesday Wishes
Wonderful wishers of the world UNITE! Let’s pause a moment and make some Wednesday Wishes. The Universe is abundant and there is no shame in asking for some of that abundance to come our way. Here’s what I’m wishing for this week… For myself: I’m feeling down, down, down. The politics of the day are […]
It’s Lin-Manuel Miranda’s World and We Are Just Voting in It
If you have not noticed that it is Lin-Manuel Miranda’s world and we are just livin’ in it, then you must be living under a rock that Broadway musical hits cannot penetrate and I do understand that such places exist. The rest of us, though, have noticed that since writing the hit Broadway musical “Hamilton” […]
Half Moon Bay Pumpkin Festival (Sundays In My City)
This year on October 15-16 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., the Half Moon Bay Art and Pumpkin Festival celebrates its 46th anniversary. This was our first year attending. Admission to the festival is free. We got there early because I have one of those husbands that HAS to get to everything early to avoid the crowds […]
The Flying Chancla Report: Keep Your Hands off My Maracas
Hola Chulas y Chulos! My chancla and I are exhausted and worn down from all the nonsense worthy of chanclazos going on in the world. We need a break. We need to focus on something that makes us smile instead of making us want to smack ourselves across the face with a chancla, amirite? That’s […]
How to Visit a Doctor Without Leaving Your Home
This is a compensated campaign in collaboration with Anthem Blue Cross and #WeAllGrow Latina Network. When I was growing up, every time my mother or abuela had to see a doctor that didn’t speak Spanish I had to act as an interpreter and quite frankly it sucked. I did my best, but inevitably things got lost […]
Wednesday Wishes
Hello fellow wishers. I hope you find yourself in a hopeful kind of mood, but even if you don’t it’s time to make some Wednesday Wishes in an effort to guide some of the abundance of the Universe your way. Here’s what I’m wishing for this week… For myself: Patience and compassion for myself and […]
Chef Marcus Samuelsson at Macy’s Union Square in San Francisco
This post is sponsored by Everywhere Agency on behalf of Macy’s; however, all thoughts and opinions are my own. Chef Marcus Samuelsson, co-creator of the popular comfort food eatery Red Rooster Harlem, has a new cookbook “The Red Rooster Cookbook: The Story of Food and Hustle in Harlem” and lucky for us Bay Area folks he’s coming […]