My chest is aching as I write this. Aching from the tension and anxiety that I feel about the election. It’s November 8 and finally this nightmare before Thanksgiving will come to an end, but who knows what we’re in for afterward. 

I care VERY much about this election, but I haven’t voted yet.

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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.

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Hola Chulas y Chulos! How the chanclada are you doing? Good, I hope. As for me and my chancla, we are busy getting ready for a trip to Washington D.C.

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Did you watch the Democratic debate tonight? Donald Trump did and he live tweeted it because OF COURSE HE DID! Anyhoo, I was too busy watching the debate to pay attention to Trump while it was happening, but I went over to Twitter when it was done to see what he tweeted about it and since I was there, I gathered up his tweets for you.

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My love sent me an email that read, “Cool video, must see.” So see it I did and he was right. You should see it too.

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There is a picture of Martin Luther King, Jr. in my daughter’s preschool. One day when I go to pick her up, my daughter points to the picture and says, “Mama, mama, his dream came true!”

When I ask her what his dream was, she tells me that his dream was that “everybody would be nice to everybody.” There was a part of me that wanted to tell her, that it is still a dream in progress, but her face was so unbelievably excited to share the good news with me that I smiled and thanked her for telling me.

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On November 6th, Californians will head to the polls and decide the fate of Prop 37. The passing of Prop 37 would require the labeling of food sold to consumers made from plants or animals with GMOs (genetically modified organisms) and would also prohibit the marketing of such food as “natural.”

For me this is a no-brainer.

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I had a hard time titling this post. I could have called it:

• If Mitt Romney were Latino would he have a better chance of winning?

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It’s a big election year and my inner political monologue goes a little something like this:

Poliltics?! Who has time for politics?

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Although I was born in the United States, I did not grow up with the tradition of voting. Voting was a “tradition” that I had to create for myself.

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Tomorrow UnknownMami.com will be joining websites such as MoveOn.org, Wikipedia, and Reddit by going dark as a protest against the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) in the U.S.

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I am not the best housekeeper in the world. My house is not dirty, but it is a beautiful mess.  Things may not always be tidy, but they are clean enough and there are other things I’d much rather be doing than continually picking up.

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