Cojelo Con el Take it Easy

So, sometimes do you think we’re a people prone to drama?
Like we go for the lucha, for the tiki tiki, when we could just brush it off y ya? Is it …

Weathering the Tough Stuff
Two years ago, we surprised our daughter with an 8-week-old puppy.
Two days ago (as I write this), my family got surprised by an F1 tornado that slammed into an area close to …

dicho: “Amistades que son ciertas, mantienens la puertas abiertas.”
I got a text the other day from my best friend from grade school. We hung together tightly from the 4th grade to the 10th. Our day-to-day …

Keeping the Resolution to Connect
On most evenings before tuck-in now in 2012, my daughter and I sit on her bed, open a fat, blank book and list our “Gratitude and Goals.”
Simple gratitude for the day …

There are just three of us at home most of the time.
The dog barks a lot, and the cat is a pushy meower, but mostly it is like Silent Night around here all year long.
The …

Navigating the Holidays
I tried to Cyber shop. I really did.
I hid away in my office on Black Friday and scrolled through pages and pages of Amazing One Day Only Deals!
And then on Cyber Monday, I …

I am missing my primos.
It happens every Thanksgiving.
As I prepare my family’s feast, I get flooded with memories of us — in our good clothes, light sweaters and doused in violetas cologne — playing at …

I always tell my daughter I am grateful to be her mother.
Over and over and over again.
And, I always tell her it was to my extreme joy she was born the week of Thanksgiving, my …

A few weeks ago, my daughter, who is almost 8, asked for red nail polish like mine.
The first thing that popped into my head and out my mouth was: “It isn’t appropriate.”
But why, she asked, …

Otoño entrante, barriga tirante
The Spanish refran, or dicho, goes that that big, stretched out belly you got going on this Fall is.a left-over from summer excesses.
Word! I can relate.
It’s why I am attempting to move …