Betty Crocker Kitchens – Dulce de Leche, por favor
August 30, 2010 – 4:32 am | 7 Comments

ShareI was privileged to attend an event in Minneapolis last week called Baking With Betty. As in Betty Crocker. (Yes, I know!) I was out-of-my-skin excited to get to visit and cook in the famed …

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Baby Steps
June 28, 2010 – 12:12 pm | One Comment
Baby Steps

ShareAs I walk up to my bedroom each evening, I am greeted by these:

And I always stop and look at each one. Always. Every night.
Because I don’t want to forget.
It’s probably as a result …

Born to be Reina
January 7, 2010 – 6:08 am | 4 Comments
Born to be Reina

Share“This is not a baby shower, it’s a coronation!”
That was spoken by my best friend, a Nebraska native and non-Latina, as she walked into the hall on Calle Ocho in Miami where my Cuban-style baby …

The Luxury of Imaginación
July 6, 2009 – 5:00 am | No Comment
The Luxury of Imaginación

ShareBack when I used to do a meditation class, we’d end sessions with the instructor leading us through a guided visualization.  Esos últimos diez minutos of class, where I’d get to lay on my mat and …

Beautiful-but-Spiny Latin Names
June 29, 2009 – 5:00 am | 8 Comments
Beautiful-but-Spiny Latin Names

ShareWhen I lived in Madrid, my name was even longer than it is now- my mother’s last name tacked on the back. Every child’s name a miniature family tree. Roll call took much …

Bruja in Brief
June 9, 2009 – 5:00 am | 4 Comments
Bruja in Brief

ShareIn our house, we do “Sana, sana, colita de rana, si no sanas hoy, sanarás mañana,” every time someone gets hurt.
So we were visiting friends in another state when my son bumped his head and …

Imagínatelo
June 1, 2009 – 5:00 am | No Comment
Imagínatelo

ShareYou know you can relate to the long-held dream of something “impossible”.
In the past two weeks, I have totally potty trained two kids and begun running for bursts of 3:40- two things that, though I …

Ni Mentirosa, Ni Loca
May 18, 2009 – 9:43 pm | One Comment
Ni Mentirosa, Ni Loca

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My kids have a multicolored plush spider that, if you press one of its dangly dance-shoed legs, plays the Lambada. A Spanish-speaking friend of my mother’s got it for our older daughter. I remember how, …

Running on Cuban time
May 18, 2009 – 3:09 am | 2 Comments
Running on Cuban time

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These clocks are in my kitchen. They read from left to right like this:
~ Hanalei, Hawaii – our favorite place in the islands.
~ Mission Viejo, California – where we live.
~ Habana, Cuba – where I’m …

My Own Amiga Imaginaria
May 13, 2009 – 5:59 pm | One Comment
My Own Amiga Imaginaria

ShareA veces el pulpo es malo, otras veces es bueno.  When I ask my daughter about him se ve espantada, telling me that he’s outside, on the terrace, wanting to bite her, or looks past …

Run, Mami, Run!
May 11, 2009 – 9:48 am | 3 Comments
Run, Mami, Run!

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I changed my mind.  First, I told my husband that I wanted to spend Mother’s Day attending church as a family, then going to brunch at my mother’s house, and then hiking with the kids …