The Best Moment Award: Living for the Now and for mom’s penguin stories As we grow older, we naturally have more memories to look back upon. We naturally have more moments that we may wish to erase or relive. I was nominated for a WordPress Best Moments Award […]
March and Mother Nature are Playing Tricks on Me Laguardia, Wrestlemania and Selena on my mind as winter draws to its final end The month of March has been winding down ever the more slowly. February went by in a flash, but March has been a bit of […]
Walking the Mommy Line While on Business Travel Business travel can be fun, tiring, illuminating and exasperating. At times, business travel can be a necessary evil; other times business travel is a way to understand further the context of ones work by breaking bread and traveling the […]
Stepping in the Goop: singing the motherhood blues It seems every four months or so, there is a media storm surrounding some outlandish pronouncement about motherhood and who has it worse. Meaning, who is more harried, hurried, and worried. I am currently standing on a metro north platform […]
We had a morning ritual when I was growing up. I would get up and make coffee for my mom on the stovetop. Although Café con Leche (coffee with milk)is extremely popular in Puerto Rican households, my mom would drink her first morning cup of coffee black. I […]
There is Something about Mary in the Deep South: My Alternate Persona My mom’s favorite holiday was April Fool’s Day. She loved to pull pranks and she would go all out on the first of April every year. She would take rotten steak and place under the couch […]
I know that teen angst-driven shows on television perpetuate the concept of best friends forever (BFFs). Does that exist anymore? We may wonder whether Serena and Blair stay friends, Buffy and Willow, or Rachel and Monica after the cameras have turned off. Another point to ponder nowadays is […]
Letting it go I was once free but now I have trouble with the act of leaving. I must assess why that it is. I have reached a lot of cross roads in my life. Last night, while out on a business dinner, I mentioned the two books […]
This past week, that saw the various celebratory occurrences of Mardi Gras, I was in St. Louis Missouri for business. I had no idea that a mid-western (sort of southern) town could so readily get into Mardi Gras. I have always associated Mardi Gras with New Orleans. We […]
Against all odds. I recall a Phil Collins song by that title. I even recall a video from back in the day when MTV actually showed videos. Phil Collins’ song was about a love lost and an empty space left behind in one’s heart. The song, when it […]
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