This year on October 15-16 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., the Half Moon Bay Art and Pumpkin Festival celebrates its 46th anniversary. This was our first year attending. Admission to the festival is free. We got there early because I have one of those husbands that HAS to get to everything early to avoid the crowds […]
The Flying Chancla Report: Keep Your Hands off My Maracas
Hola Chulas y Chulos! My chancla and I are exhausted and worn down from all the nonsense worthy of chanclazos going on in the world. We need a break. We need to focus on something that makes us smile instead of making us want to smack ourselves across the face with a chancla, amirite? That’s […]
How to Visit a Doctor Without Leaving Your Home
This is a compensated campaign in collaboration with Anthem Blue Cross and #WeAllGrow Latina Network. When I was growing up, every time my mother or abuela had to see a doctor that didn’t speak Spanish I had to act as an interpreter and quite frankly it sucked. I did my best, but inevitably things got lost […]
Wednesday Wishes
Hello fellow wishers. I hope you find yourself in a hopeful kind of mood, but even if you don’t it’s time to make some Wednesday Wishes in an effort to guide some of the abundance of the Universe your way. Here’s what I’m wishing for this week… For myself: Patience and compassion for myself and […]
Chef Marcus Samuelsson at Macy’s Union Square in San Francisco
This post is sponsored by Everywhere Agency on behalf of Macy’s; however, all thoughts and opinions are my own. Chef Marcus Samuelsson, co-creator of the popular comfort food eatery Red Rooster Harlem, has a new cookbook “The Red Rooster Cookbook: The Story of Food and Hustle in Harlem” and lucky for us Bay Area folks he’s coming […]