Growing up in the South Bronx I was very familiar with the sounds of music late, late into the night. And I do not mean yodeling with Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer. Instead, there was salsa, merengue and freestyle music blasting into the night on a boom box. Ah, […]
Oh, where to land now Another place tomorrow Pedaling quickly I am not a bike rider. And that is perhaps one of my biggest understatements ever. Maybe. I believe I have already shared how I also hate spinning. I don’t get it. I also do not like […]
I never thought that this day would come. For eight years now, I hug my little boy each day and call him my baby. For he will always be my baby. That is what he has promised me in the past. Just this week, Facebook showed me […]
I woke up at 2am with a leaky eye. I was frightened that I now had an eye infection as well as my cough and ear pain. I watched the television show Scorpion to help help me fall back asleep. The problem with doing that is that the […]
Once upon a time, not so long ago when I was a young girl in the South Bronx, I wanted to be a fairy. I knew about Tinker Bell and I wanted to flitter around as a tiny being who could get in and out of […]
I wish that everyday was treated as Thanksgiving. It surely would be nice to eat tons of food without a care and actually be giddy about it. It truly would be awesome, if after such gluttony, one didn’t have to show up to work the next day. It […]
A few days back I noted that I do not care for fairy tales. They are a tad bit boring in my view and rarely offer any originality. But that is not to say I hate all fairy tales. I was always partial to one, that being Beauty […]
I am a morning person. Have been all my life. I can’t remember a time where I slept past 10am. I can remember just a few times where I slept past 9am. Usually those days entailed a massive amount of jet lag or a few drinks the […]
I am going to share a very odd fact about me with you. I am not ashamed to do so. It is just a quirky bit about me that comes into play today; this being election day in the United States. Further, it is the date my mom […]
Growing up I didn’t care much for fairy tales. I didn’t see how those stories were really relevant to my day-to-day life in the South Bronx. Sure, I wanted to get out of the burned down neighborhood but I didn’t see that living in a remote […]