¡Viva la independencia!
¡Vivan los héroes que nos dieron libertad!
¡Viva México!
¡Viva México!
¡Viva México!
¡Felíz día de la independencia a mi México!
The recipe is my mom’s; I had meant to show the process as I was making them, but it doesn’t really work when you’ve got salsa de enchiladas slathered all over your hands. *The* IP and I will have this for dinner, followed up by his birthday ice cream cake. I will sing “Happy Birthday” [...]
I once made hundreds of dollars selling of old Nintendo Entertainment System (good old NES!) games to a seventh grade peer in Mexico. I guess I should say I made thousands of pesos. I ended up spending the money on clothes to the dismay and anger of Older Brother A, who technically owned [...]
I have mentioned in the past few days that work has been a little slow. Rather than grumble about it, IP reminded me to embrace it – he and I both know that work is going to get crazy soon enough, so I might as well attempt to use this time to explore some [...]
When I was writing fiction – and I took my time writing seriously – I was always struggling for an idea of identity. My biggest ambition was to write an entertaining yet enlightening view of what it’s like to live in the upper Midwest as a Mexican child, the only Mexican child in that [...]
I found this particularly hilarious:
I find it hilarious in this context: I have a friend from high school who is not the brightest crayon in the box and has never shown any inclination towards intellectual curiosity or personal development. I once stayed up until three o’clock in the morning arguing with her that, indeed, the [...]
Last night I saw Under the Same Moon (La misma luna), a film about a young Mexican boy (Carlitos, played by Adrian Alonso) who, after his grandmother dies in her sleep, illegally crosses the U.S.-Mexican border to find his mother (Rosario, played by Kate del Castillo) in Los Angeles. The theme of illegal immigration [...]
I have a terrible confession to make. This confession will probably make IP regret that he moved in with me, will make him mentally take back the ring that he was eventually to give me, make him retreat from the idea of moving to Colorado and possibly having cute chipmunk-cheeked, smart ass babies with me.
Cue [...]
I think I have to start writing sometime. And I know I need to write about the things I had been meaning to write about before my grandmother died. Among the writing tasks were the 2007 book awards, the last book list of 2007, my resolutions for this year, and my review of last year. [...]
On Friday, my father called me at work precisely at 9am. My breath caught and I quickly said to myself, “I’m okay.” My father was a bit puzzled by this reaction, but I told him that I knew what he was going to say.
My father told me that he was sorry, but that my grandmother [...]
