Grief and the holidays
December 14, 2020 No Comments
My mother’s favorite charity is Saint Jude’s Children’s hospital. It became my favorite too. Last year, we gifted a child that had just beat stage four cancer to Disney World for her first trip. I feel strongly about raising awareness for childhood cancer research as it only receives 4% of the overall funding of the […]
2020 A Little Bit of Pixie Dust
December 1, 2020 No Comments
We have been incredibly blessed, and we want to leave a legacy for our girls of giving back. That is when we had the idea to start our own little charity/tradition as a family to spread kindness, sunshine, and pay it forward each holiday season. We wanted it to be something that our girls […]
Autumn
September 20, 2020 No Comments
Autumn, I have always loved you. Your colors, your leaves. The way the wind begins to announce its presence. It tickles the back of my neck during the day, It makes music by my window as I sleep during the night. Autumn, you are beautiful. You cue us that change is coming. That the weight […]
Thanksgiving Between Two Worlds
November 29, 2019 No Comments
Ask any Hispanic or Latino, and they will tell you, Our Thanksgiving is between two worlds, the Hispanic and the American. In my case, it is between the American, the Cuban, the Argentine, and the Puerto-Rican. They blend to form traditions that are rich, mixed, and often complicated. The old meets the new. The viejitos […]
Laura
October 4, 2019 No Comments
Thank you, Laura. Are you like Laura? Yesterday when I went to pick up my child at school, she was not at her usual spot. I scanned my eyes over the crowd of children. I could not see my child. In my mind, I said, “Where is she?” Soon, I started saying it aloud. Laura […]
Always
September 22, 2019 No Comments
I love you today. I love you tomorrow. I loved you yesterday. I loved you the day before yesterday. I will love you next week and the week after. I will always love you. 50 years from now, I will love you. 100 years from now, I will love you. I will love you with […]
Vulture
September 6, 2019 No Comments
As I was driving down the street recently, I noticed a swarm of vultures eating and picking away at whatever roadkill happened to meet its fate. At that moment, I thought to myself, we need fewer vultures. I do not mean the animal. The animal is part of the “circle of life” as they say. […]
Triggered
August 7, 2019 2 Comments
My daughter starts Kindergarten this month, and I am worried about her first year at a big kid school. I have the usual mom concerns. Those include her making friends, lunchtime, and the dreaded car line. I am also terrified she will not make it home on any given day. Will she be shot at […]
What a MIGHTY GOOD MAN
July 27, 2019 No Comments
Those little lines read pregnant, and our world changed forever, twice. I always knew you would be an excellent father. I chose you to be the father of my children because I knew the kind of man you were. Yes, I always knew you would make an excellent father. What I did not realize is […]
The Imperfect Sundae
July 21, 2019 No Comments
Have you ever noticed that an ice cream sundae is the perfect blend of imperfection? As soon as you begin to indulge in it, the ice cream begins to melt. The chocolate sauce drips off in all the wrong places. The toppings begin to get lost within the ice cream, and the cherry on top […]
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