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 […]
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 […]