In spite of the everyday chaos of my life, (thanks to the willingness to cooperate of my husband, kids, and dogs) I’m still finding a few ways of celebrating my birthday today…
- I’m sitting outside on the upstairs terrace, and it is a gorgeous, warm and breezy day.
- I’m re-reading one of my favorite books, [...]
Of late, I receive a number more acceptances than I did when I first started sending out my writing, but, still, always, there are rejections. None like today’s though, which came from a poetry journal:
“We are sorry not be sending you an acceptance, but please do not attach too much significance to that because of [...]
Scenes from the last week…
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A friend (and her two kids) and I (with my three kids) take a walk through the neighborhood. An elderly couple stops us, talks to us for five or so minutes, then asks the kids’ names.
I answer first, saying our kids’ Latin-sounding first names.
Silence.
They turn to ask my friend her [...]
When I wrote my last post, I didn’t expect to have such a long absence. But, it turns out that, even though we’d (somehow!) completed the move, there was still lots to be done and lots of need for rest. I’ve been writing a bit in the meantime, but mostly just trying to organize the [...]
We’re finally moved in! Our first night at the new house was last Friday and I’ve been blissfully without phone or internet until today.
Some aspects of the move have gone more smoothly than I expected (the kids’ and dogs’ transition, for example) and some a little less smoothly (I should have listened to my [...]
I’m still in the thick of moving, but my june Multi-Culti Mami column’s up today at Literary Mama. Here’s a blurb:
“I’ve never really believed that babies and children don’t have the power of memory. I’ll concede that maybe it’s not the same kind of memory adults have, that more quantifiable kind, but I can’t help [...]
First, I came down with a stomach virus; then, our son, who kept trying to give me besos y abrazos so I’d feel better, got sick. (The girls and my husband are both fine, thankfully.) Then, my husband, already in his busiest time of the year work-wise, got even busier. Then, my allergies started aggravating [...]
I’m not a googler of people, so much as I am of places. (What does that say about me?) Anyway, this weekend, as I was working on my next column, I googled the name of my old school in Madrid. I’d done this before, with no accurate results, but, since I was taking a little [...]
The first wrinkle was actually exciting, because I’m the sort of woman who can really appreciate the gift of living long enough to get a wrinkle. BUT, the second, third, and fourth wrinkles that quickly sprung up in the following months were NOT charming in any way. Even less so when I started being able [...]
Q: How do you celebrate a wedding anniversary with three kids age 2 and under?
A: You exchange presents at midnight- so no one but you and your husband is awake, and so you don’t accidentally forget- juggle work and kids all day long, and then you get your favorite Mexican take-out for dinner, which [...]
