Last but not least I’d like to thank my Latina Mom twice This past weekend saw the celebration of Mother’s Day. Sunday was a gloriously beautiful day in New York. Everywhere one turned you saw flowers, bird houses and pies on sale as part of the Mother’s […]
The helpfulness of swearing up a storm and using vibrating pills: This week’s weird news around the globe It’s another wacky week where oddities abound. However, it is mother’s day. A day where we celebrate the beauty of motherhood and the true love one has for […]
Panama City: In Constant Movement and Stasis Panama City is a lovely booming city filled with a diverse group of people who are coming and going. There are walkways throughout to encourage movement even in the high noon heat. Panama City is rightly known for […]
Irregardless, schadenfreude is a glorious word As a former spelling bee champ growing up,I love words. As someone, who despite all her successes does not like standardized tests, I can dislike so-called “GRE” words. It’s a modern-day complicated relationship I hold with words. Nowadays, I go around making […]
Hop on Pop no more and other weird, wacky stories of people getting out of sticky situations It’s been a long week. A long weekend in that I spent four hours shopping for a dress to only come home and find the perfect one (brand new […]
Literal, physical and existential sticky situations while traveling If you love to travel and do it quite often, then you must have a hardy core and quick-thinking brain (of sorts). Cultural and language misunderstandings are the items Du jour oftentimes while out on the road. I […]
The five minutes of prayer and five seconds of clapping while traveling As the plane starts to pick up speed down the runway, slowly people start quieting their plane talk while their heart rate starts to mightily speed up. Look around as the plane speeds up and […]
The ring of fire and sugar in Panama Growing up in a Puerto Rican household meant I ate tons of garlic-laden food, but barely any spicy food. Mexican food was not popular in my neighborhood. Chinese food was but it was the kind that made barbecue chicken wings. […]
She was born a decade after her sister. Such an age difference seemed insufferably insurmountable. By the time she was four, her sister was gone attending boarding school. She was left alone in an adult world with very few dolls. She didn’t even have her sister’s hand-me-downs for […]
Panama City has the Casco Viejo which resembles Viejo San Juan in Puerto Rico and Habana Viejo in Cuba. It is a beautiful thriving area that is under immense construction and redevelopment. Panama City also has Panama Viejo (Old Panama) which is to the eastern part of PanamaCity […]
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