IP and I have booked our honeymoon! We’ll be headed to Cancun in April. Greece is still on the table, though: it’ll either be our “Damn, we’re stuck in D.C. for longer, huh? Let’s take a later summer vacation, dammit!” trip or our “We’ve decided to have kids: this may be the last vacation in [...]
. . . That Cinco de Mayo is not Mexico’s independence day. That would be September 15/16 (yes, we get two days thanks to the festivities commencing on September 15 in order to get ready for the Grito; aren’t we special?). It’s also not a day to celebrate Latino culture as a whole, even Mexican [...]
Step 1: Mix all the ingerdients. Why yes, those are sticks of Crisco sticking out of the mix. Trust me, though. Trust me.
Step 2: Knead all the ingredients until it looks like this. Doesn’t that look a lot better?
Step 3: Form the dough into the cookie shape. Wouldn’t you like to know how I get [...]
¡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 [...]
