Great Expectations: Bathe in Truth Cream The door is smeared with bloody prints The floor is littered with smashed-up dreams Madness lies in the furrowed squints A hundred ideas wasted on the blasted regime Brush out the deviled lint Fly up above the horrid stream Muddy waters always […]
Time to put on my grannie panties When I first heard the former education secretary Margaret Spellings advise incoming White House Press Secretary Dana Perino that it was time to put on her “big girl panties” I was awestruck. I felt no better phrase captured what women […]
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 […]
As I walk out of Grand Central station and head to work, I am bombarded with advertisements with all sorts of wild claims. Some juices cure you of Vitamin D deficiencies and some airlines have enough legroom that you can stretch out and not develop deep vein thrombosis. […]
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 […]
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. […]
A daily ritual Woke to a growing sprinkled field of yellow Chirping musical notes throughout the spectrum An owl hoots into the sunrise The rabbits scamper and mightily sniff Nearly forgot this was no serene monticello Instead I lay waste to a thorny plectrum Plucking out all […]
I am not a big party person. I like to go dancing at the clubs and go to a bar and have a few cocktails. Throwing a party in my house so that people can stomp all over and I have to then clean up afterwards….well, not so […]
Where wanderlust and a love of film shall meet I have a huge thirst for travel. I only have seven states left in my quest to spend significant time in all 50 US states. I have lived abroad in Spain and have traveled to places far and wide. […]
The early bird gets the worm plus all the extra work I am generally up at the crack of dawn. If I wake up at 7am, I am waking up either an hour too late or it is a sunday. My son appears to have the early bird […]
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