Buybuy Baby Last night, my husband Ulises and I took what seemed to be the longest way to visit his youngest brother, his girlfriend, and their new baby. We live in Washington, DC, in the northwest quadrant. They are staying at her parents’ house in Germantown, Maryland. I’m scooting to MapQuest this very moment to figure out how many miles separate the two. One moment … Okay, we’re apparently 31.3 miles apart. Not too far. I guess because it was a) after work and b) because we needed to stop off at Buybuy Baby to shop for a breast pump as well as c) withdraw some cash for the new family once we failed to get a breast pump (who knew they were so expensive!? or that they're probably too personal a gift to buy for someone else?) that it seemed to take forever to get there. Arrive we finally did to be greeted by the family, their pet ferret Deuce, and a yippy dog named Oreo Cookie. My husband's brother lives at his girlfriend's parents' house, nestled in a cute suburban
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Snippet Número 1: Living on the Street Last Thursday a former co-worker and I headed over to N Street Village , a women's homeless shelter on 14th and N Streets here in our dear city, Washington, DC. We had signed up to help serve lunch in the shelter's cafeteria. I'd attended orientation there but had forgotten how best to get into the cafeteria. So, I rambled into the shelter's courtyard, a pretty big space that's neatly landscaped and lined with tiles. I approached the door and an older woman sitting nearby smoking meekly asked me who I was there to meet. I told her I was there to help serve lunch and she directed me to a blue door on the other side of the courtyard that shoots straight to the cafeteria. About face, I thanked her and headed off. As I retraced my steps through the courtyard, I passed three other women smoking on a bench. They purred, whistled, and shouted at me: "Hey baby! Hey, come over here sweetie! Let me check you out!" And some othe
To make up for squandered time, here are some photos of our latest adventures. They include hiking in Shenandoah National Park with our latest furry friend, Sam; a May Day March for Immigrant Rights to the White House; camping at Chincoteague Island, Virginia, over Memorial Day; hanging with the family in Cape May, New Jersey; going to the Real Madrid soccer game at FedEx Field. Photos
En el cambio, la evolución. Evolution is in change/in change, there is evolution. Sounds better in Spanish, right? Makes more sense in Spanish, too, right? So it's been six months since I posted (!) Time to get started again. I sent ONE THIRD , the book, to several literary agents and nobody's taken a bite. Should I keep trying? In the meantime, I'll continue to post chapters of it here. I also will add "snippets," accounts of strange/funny things that happen in my daily life that are truthfully more suitable to the blog format. I may even develop my latest kids' book idea, Bad Begbie and the Furry Bunch , on these very pages. Sound good? Re my pseudo epigraph, a friend once said that to me and I found it simple but wise. Then, weeks later, I was half listening to my every-faithful iPod and Chambao, the Spanish flamenco fusion group my pal in Sevilla, Carmen, introduced me to ever so long ago. And, bam, there was the line. Huh, I thought, I assumed Nery had co
A New Year: Three Months In Wow, I haven't posted since December! Sorry! Will get back to posting chunks of ONE THIRD in a jiffy along with some new photos (in a bit). It's been a busy start to a new year as Ulises and I bought our first home. And now we live in the DC suburbs! (eep!; well, to be perfectly honest, we're about 2.67 minutes over the DC - Maryland line; about six miles from my office in downtown DC) We've been busy cleaning, painting, pulling up nasty carpet, weeding, moving, hanging curtains, raking, etc. But we've also had time for some ping pong, thank goodness. Back to ONE THIRD, which I've since finished editing (again) and hope still to get published though the economy isn't in my corner these days (nor in anyone else's for that matter). Perhaps better to soldier on with a new idea? Hmm ...