Because I want you to laugh with me, as much as I want you to curse with me. Check this out: Pardon my Spanglish by Bill Santiago. I just found out about it via Juan at Hispanic Trending. Obviously, I am a little late to the party. Este tipo es muy funny.

A few feet from the cubicle I called home for many years, there was a Free Table. That’s where all the “graft” PR people sent the newsroom got put up for grabs. There were CDs, books, T-shirts, toothpaste, cookies. You name it. It was excessive and ridiculous and very fun. We got to try out […]

A few feet from the cubicle I called home for many years, there was a Free Table. That’s where all the “graft” PR people sent the newsroom got put up for grabs. There were CDs, books, T-shirts, toothpaste, cookies. You name it. It was excessive and ridiculous and very fun. We got to try out […]

I have a semi-automatic reaction to “ethnic” media. Maybe blame it on TV comedies and movies that tend to portray non-Hispanic, white Americans as caricatures of one dimension. But, other than the ick Tico the Squirrel gives me, the kid books and videos we own that depict Latinos and Hispanic culture, have been great — a […]

A month before we got married, my husband and I were visiting Miami and staying with my aunt. She and I were talking. I don’t remember about what when my future husband said: “Hey, stop arguing!” My aunt and I answered at the same time. “We’re not arguing,” I said, surprised he thought we were. […]

Tonight I will be putting on pumps and perfume and shaking it with Latinos of all flavors at a local Hispanic Heritage Month fiestecita. Oh, colorful Nashville of 2008 I love you so much better than Nashville of 1991. As I celebrate, here’s how I’m helping you get your Latin on: The good people at Hachette […]

Tonight I will be putting on pumps and perfume and shaking it with Latinos of all flavors at a local Hispanic Heritage Month fiestecita. Oh, colorful Nashville of 2008 I love you so much better than Nashville of 1991. As I celebrate, here’s how I’m helping you get your Latin on: The good people at Hachette […]

California, Summer 2008 A couple of days after I wrote about summer kicking my butt and my plan to peel out of Maria’s school parking lot on her first day, I sat down to read a wonderful book a friend just loaned me — The Childhood Roots of Adult Happiness by Edward M. Hallowell, M.D. […]

California, Summer 2008 A couple of days after I wrote about summer kicking my butt and my plan to peel out of Maria’s school parking lot on her first day, I sat down to read a wonderful book a friend just loaned me — The Childhood Roots of Adult Happiness by Edward M. Hallowell, M.D. […]

Happy Lunes, everybody… You know how I often write about the Spanish and bilingual books and music Maria and I enjoy? Well, now it’s a regular gig. Monica from Latin Baby USA, a competitor and friend, (yes, that is possible) has launched the Latin Baby Book Club. Five of us, all lovers of words, will […]