Browsing archives for May, 2009

It’s in the Food

family,food,life,memories 12 May 2009 | 0 Comments

Food is always an issue in my household: Eze likes his rice & beans, pork chops and viandas; I don’t. I’m usually met with incredulous faces (complete with gaping mouths and wide eyes) when I admit that I don’t like rice & beans at all. If you’re boricua, you have to like rice & beans, [...]

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Hallmark Dearest

family,holidays 8 May 2009 | 0 Comments

I just got home from a failed attempt at penetrating the biggest mall in this island (Plaza las Américas, of course, the center of everyyyything). I wanted to get a rare orchid for my mother: it was an dark purple plant with leaves that slightly shimmered as if gold dust had been sprinkled on them, [...]

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What Summer Looks Like From May

animals,back to school,life,pets,work 6 May 2009 | 0 Comments

Semester is ending, and the fact that I haven’t posted here regularly has been nagging me like a tiny fly in the back of my mind. Some would say that school is to blame for the lack of blogging, but in my case, I think it may be Twitter.:-/ Microblogging killed regular blogging. Sad. I [...]

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