My heart has been breaking lately. Or maybe breaking is not the right word. It feels more like my chest is wide open and my heart is exposed and cracked. As if that were not enough the skies are raining lime and salt onto my poor exposed, cracked heart and it hurts so much. It’s […]
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Latinitas Turned My Daughter Into a Game Chica
You know how when you are so excited about something and want to tell others about it you get kind of stuck because you don’t even know where to start? Well, that’s how I feel about the Latinitas’ Game Chica Conference that took place this weekend at Seven Tepees in San Francisco’s Mission District. Latinitas’ […]
Terrifying Images of Me and My Husband in the Morning
Can we all just be totally transparent and admit that the images we share of ourselves online tend to be the most flattering ones we have? It makes sense I suppose, but it does create a distorted sense of reality because in reality we do NOT always look our best. Nope, sometimes we look downright […]
11 Things I Love About My Husband
My husband and I are celebrating 11 years of wedded sometimes bliss. I say “sometimes” because, in all honesty, marriage is not always blissful, amirite? Sometimes it’s blissful, sometimes it’s less than blissful and hopefully, it is always something you both value tremendously. We do, we value our marriage and each other very much. In […]
10 Things About My 10-Year-Old
My eldest turned 10 this weekend. Un-freakin-believable. How? 10 Things About My 10-Year-Old This year she wanted a pound cake instead of a birthday cake. We got her a pound cake and cupcakes in case her guests weren’t as excited about pound cake as she is. She thinks most cakes have WAY TOO MUCH frosting, […]
How Half Moon Bay Turned My Crappy Day Into a Happy Day
Let’s just say that the day started with tears, tantrums and more tears. You would think that the tears and tantrums would have come from my 7 or 10-year-old, but no, they came from me. What can I say? I am human, hormonal and on occasion prone to the dramatic. With a start like that, […]
A Mother’s Day Letter to Myself
I thought I would write a Mother’s Day letter to myself this year because I deserve to praise myself. I put a lot of effort into this motherhood gig and I’m not even going to pretend to humble brag, I’m going to full on brag. I don’t always feel great about myself as a mother, […]
7 Things About My 7-Year-Old
7 Things About My 7-Year-Old She was born with only one kidney and for a while when she was in my womb we didn’t know if she had any kidneys at all. I consider her a miracle. Her capacity to love and express that love is truly awe-inspiring. May she never lose the ability […]
21 Things I Learned From My Mexican Mom
This is a picture of my mother and me taken in her San Diego home. I was able to take this picture with her because we took advantage of my husband taking off for the holidays and drove from San Francisco to San Diego, California to usher in the new year with my mother and […]
Gods in Color: Polychromy in the Ancient World at the Legion of Honor
How often do you get to see an art exhibit that completely changes the way you imagine the past? Well, that’s exactly what Gods in Color: Polychromy in the Ancient World at the Legion of Honor in San Francisco does. If you, like I and so many others, have this idea that ancient classical Greek […]