Hola Chulas y Chulos! How my hijos de la chanclada doing? Can we talk about how crazy the world is lately? Pura locura, amirite? Things are so crazy that sometimes existing words are inadequate. Well, thank goodness for Twitter and hashtag games because now we have some useful new verbs to choose from. Check out […]
Wednesday Wishes
I’m writing this in the last few moments of the Wednesday before Thanksgiving. There is some sadness in my life that I am feeling deeply and there is also much happiness and gratitude that I am embracing. This year has been a challenge for so many of us. Let’s stay hopeful. Let’s wish each other […]
13 #TrumpYourThanksgiving Tweets That Will Make You Laugh Before You Cry This Thanksgiving
This Thanksgiving I am staying home with my immediate family. That means it will be my husband, myself, our 8-year-old and our 5-year-old. The conversation will flow with ease and the only tension that arises will be from the adults urging the kids to eat something other than mashed potatoes and pie and for that […]
Pumpkin Flan Vanilla Cake
Thank you to Mi Pueblo Foods for sponsoring this post. The opinions and text are mine. You know how when you go to an average American supermarket there is like a quarter or, if you’re really lucky, a half of an aisle dedicated to Latin foods? I mean that’s nice and all, but if you […]
‘Xochitl and the Flowers’ (Sundays In My City)
This weekend I had the pleasure of watching my daughter in the world premier of the opera “Xochitl and the Flowers” at the Mission Cultural Center in San Francisco. The opera by Christopher Pratorius is based on the children’s book of the same title by Jorge Argueta. You should know that my daughter is not an opera […]