My daughters go to an awesome school that hosts a Day of the Dead festival every year. One of the fun activity stations at this event is a sombreros de papel/ paper hats station where you get to have a Calavera Catrina style paper hat tailor made for you. Calavera Catrinas are dapper skeletons […]
Arata Pumpkin Farm (Sundays In My City)
Arata Farm, San Mateo’s oldest working pumpkin farm, is about an hour away from our home in San Francisco. The farm has been growing pumpkins since 1932. I was checking out their website and found out that it all came about because in the 1930s brothers John and Clarence Arata planted pumpkin seeds to feed […]
The Flying Chancla Report: Mazapan Wins Halloween and CholoFit Keeps You Trim
Hola Chulos y Chulas! This week my chancla and I are looking forward to grubbin’ on all the candy we are planning on stealing from my kids after they go trick or treating or “triko tri” as some of my relatives say, so we thought we’d dedicate this week’s The Flying Chancla Report to Halloween. We […]
Wednesday Wishes
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 […]
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 […]