Joyeux Reveillon 2013!

  Reveillon  Désoler pour cette longue, voir très longue absence (encore une fois...)   Ehe-emm, pour les fêtes j'ai travaillée en peu et plus des repas en famille ...   ...donc je n'ai pas vraiment eu le temps de m'occuper du Blog. Je vous poste, comme promis mais avec un peu de retard  un article pour vous montrer les cadeaux que j'ai eu pour Noël - my new box!   Ah, yes, you guessed it...

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A Happy Everything wish for you...

This year's hug.. You have come to the right place.  Welcome to my place for the ordinary ! Ah, my fears are luckily unfounded...I now have your attention! Disclaimer: I confess I did not want to risk any distort by a  brief and passing verbal delivery, so I threw in a few good end of the year wishes for you below...       I WISH FOR YOU:  Peace in times of unrest; A...

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Los amigos son la familia que nosotros escogemos

This photograph was taken as a result of a series of events leading up to a Boomer Celebration that took place on November 10, 2012: Click on this link for more tales: Our Story   Following our story, the big day arrived along with a Giant Yellow Submarine cake crafted by my artful cousin Nancily and docked into safe harbor. This baby got the party started!   Click on Link for : Yellow Submarine Extravangaza! Epilogue...

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A mess redefined.

This harangue of a mess simply started when I was unable to find one dull government assigned document one week ago. I shuffled through every drawer and personally manipulated every piece of paper that I owned. I flipped over and under boxes, crates, odd and even vessels of our lives in print, musty cabinets, piano benches and utility room containers; I realized that I needed to seriously organize this hot pile of history and...

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Maricusita-de-Belen: Kika

  Assonance or not, couplet or dactyl, dimeter or stanza ... I was recently inspired ( as recent as last night) by one of my favorite twentieth century poets, Hanna Kahn, to throw some witty wordy nuggets together for my favorite Kika -for all time.     (f/k/a: Maria-cusita-de-belen)   blond and wineglasses and bible; lava summer, soulful and steady. radiant and vintage sharp...

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Coming back...it's Fall.

After drinking a glass of milk and fumbling in the dark for a fleece jacket, I met this day with the same youthful enthusiasm that kept me exhilarated this time of year when I was Abuela Mercedes' little grand daughter.    Churros and Menier chocolate weather has arrived!   Thirty years or more ago, on a morning much like this one, our busy kitchen laboratory would be constantly blazing with Abuela's  ...

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Back to South Beach and more...

Life is slowly returning to what 'was' prior to my European re-unification. I  am slowly and lethargically preparing to face the unexpected challenges that meet and greet me from sun up to sunset and some times even while I sleep. Knowing full well that my reconnect with Florida has been bumpy- at best, my daughter and son-in-law invited me out on a date last Friday night.  I sometimes forget  that we natives...

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161 To Go, Please!

So this is my field, this is my glass on my windowsill that overlooks my field and this is me sitting behind it all ...three days ago... Although I am physically back in town, I am admittedly waiting for the rest of me to catch up! I confess, this is a tough one,  I am ONLY inching my way back to reality starting today. The 'Great Disconnect" is not quite over.  I am not feeling any great urges to come back to what...

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Fathers Day and the Rabbit Cook Off!

About three weeks ago while having yet another family evening of good eats and mindless banter, two Tony's and one Armando devised a plan to cook up a typical Portuguese-like rabbit meal.  A date was set and the plot thickened as Sunday drew near. Three fedoras, three pounds of rabbit, one box of pasta and some vinho verde translated into  a culturally palate awakening soiree.  And, oh what a night it was! It...

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