I love to travel, try new foods, ingest caffeine, and watch political news coverage. A psychologist by training trying to bring a little common sense to it all.
Ok. This may come off as a bit silly to many. And you shall shortly see why. Ok. My son is nine years old. Right as he turned nine, we got him a cell phone. I was getting an upgrade and felt that he could finally use one […]
I did not have more fun as a blonde. Flat out truth. Of course, it is a stereotype that blondes have more fun. But when I dyed my hair blonde I wanted to embody that stereotype for a bit. But it didn’t happen. Boo on me. It actually […]
It is a brand new day and a brand new year. It has got to be better than the previous one. It just has to. Plus it is the year of the dog and we all know dogs rule. The Year of the Dog is supposedly a good time […]
It’s the end of the year and lists and retrospectives abound. One can imagine that Donald Trump made many lists-regardless of what they cover. Frankly, I am a bit tired of these news story lists. I am intrigued by the lists that outline great discoveries from the […]
The morning horn sounded and the kids left their bunkers heading out to the fields sleepy-eyed. It didn’t matter how many times they did this, they were always sleepy. They went barefoot so that they could feel the moist morning grass. It helped them feel alive […]
When I lived and worked in New York, I was quite fortunate to work with a lot of other Puerto Ricans. Why do I consider that fortunate? For Christmas, so many of them would make my favorite pork dishes and Puerto Rican eggnog. Our version of eggnog, called […]
Every year, we arrive at December thinking about the ups and downs we went through the past 12 months. Its a ritual. We all do it. Every year it seems there was something extraordinarily different. It was crazier. It was unprecedented. It was the best. It could […]
A hard night A hard day The throbbing headaches The circular fears The salted jeers The false cheers Underestimated Overwhelmed Tempted by fate Standby for the alarm Sound the alarms Water the dry mouth Find a cure Blow the candles A new frosting for the cake that has […]
2017 is coming to its natural end Wish I could say it was a jolly good time Year long, day in and day out But there was always one solid A baby boy with the brightest smile The sweetest giggle The kindest heart And apparently a brain for math […]
I love this time of the year. I love dancing and singing to sweetly sweet songs. Growing up, Christmas was a bit hard. However, now with my son, Christmas is just divine. I want to freeze in place his wonderful smile, cheery disposition and wondrous belief in […]
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