In the last days of 1989, when I was 22, I wrote a newspaper story quoting experts predicting the trends for the 1990s. Good-bye greedy and mean 1980s, the experts said. Hello, kindness toward man and old person.
Ha! What the hell do experts know? And, certainly, those shoulder-pad, big-hair wearing experts of 1989 did not know about [...]

We had a dinner party for 10 adults and 8 children.
Among us:
A vegetarian who eats fish.
A vegetarian who does not eat fish.
A man who cannot eat dairy.
A man allergic to meat.
A woman allergic to corn.
A child who is allergic to nuts.
A child who was once allergic to nuts.
A perfect snapshot of Modern Living, I think.
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Do [...]

So, I have been playing hookie un poco. It’s why there hasn’t been much action around here.
Around mid-day — when I already have put in at least six hours at the computer — I think about all that I still could do, and I say: “Pal’ carajo.”
I head to the pool. The water is 87 [...]

We took to the woods yesterday. Maria, the cat, the guineas and me. I brought the Flip and as you will see by her expression at the end, she was not happy about my messing with the spiritual experience she was having. The song she is singing is a Taize meditation song, Veni Sancte Spiritus, [...]

This is usually my season of bitching.
It starts the minute the thermometer begins to regularly dip below 65. It has been raining a lot here, so the bitching started earlier than usual.
“You’re cold? Why?” my husband asks.
What do you mean, why? I just am.
He’s never cold. He has Pioneer blood. Me, I have “Mix me [...]

I am half-dressed and staring at myself in the mirror.
Husband walks past me toward the closet.
We’re going out for the evening.
“What is the matter?” he asks.
“I’m thinking,” I say.
“Must be bad.”
“This,” I say, walking toward him and pointing to the top of my head. “is what I am thinking about. You see this pubey-looking gray [...]

I’ve been thinking for a while now about what telenovela title I would give my life.
This is the kind of caca I think about when I can’t sleep, or when I am doodling in my notebook, and you know, when I am avoiding work and mopping.

Since I have rounded up a few new Latina friends [...]

A friend told me video blogging is the gway to goh in 2009 when ju want tu make a de poin’.
Forgive the length. Cubans are long-winded. I am working on uploading some excerpts.

We watched HBO’s Habla Mas last night and this particular interview several times. I laughed so hard, I cried.

Enjoy.

Warning, rant ahead…

The city of Nashville will spend $350,000 to $500,000 to hold a special election in January. The issue: Making sure that Nashville business is done in English only.

Thing is, English already is the official language of Nashville. And so, the protectionist message is, in my opinion, just a P.S. to newcomers that well, [...]