Mafe Maria: A Creative Playground by Maria Q. Stultz
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You’ve heard them. You may even be one of them. Without a whole lot of whining you dare to vent a tiny little fact related to how challenging your life has become with your (now seven months old) little bundle of joy, and Super Mom smiles and replies: “But they [children] are worth it”. Personally, […]
This will have to be a short one. Gotta run and dry my hair so we can go out later to the aquarium, the next destination on Joaquin’s getting–out–of–the–house training series.
In a few words: Bolliti HATES the car seat. HATES the car. Tolerates motion in his new lightweight stroller, but HATES the stroller if the […]
Do recruiters read resumes any more? I mean, dude!… I understand you’re all busy people (like we all are), but I would think, THINK!, that you should first read a resume — or at least the target job title — to figure out if a person is even a candidate for a job… I dunno, […]
Bolliti Panfriti,
Next Sunday it will have been 37 weeks, and you should be fully baked. It’s time to start dropping bebé… I only need to do one last trip to the baby store to be completely ready for your arrival. Everything else is waiting for you.
This week, people’s comments about the hugeness, grossness, and ouchness […]
It’s the morning of my 35th birthday, and while I’m getting ready for our second childbirth class, I realize that for the first time ever, today I’m not thinking that today, 35 years ago, I was born. No. This morning, 34 weeks deep into pregnancy (that is, 3-7 weeks away from labor), what I’m thinking […]
Somehow, sometime, somebody entrusted with precious personal information sold my name and address to who knows who, and yesterday, surprise–surprise… we started receiving baby/child product catalogs for the first time ever in this household’s history. Oh, yes! They found us…
A little outraged by the thought of either my doctor (doubtful), the hospital (maybe), or our […]
I was really trying to hold on writing my first pregnancy post until a time when I felt both: ecstatic to be pregnant, and completely confident on the viability of the pregnancy. Yes. For those that I haven’t told yet: I am 6-weeks pregnant. Yay. Unfortunately, every pregnancy book on the planet begins with the […]
While drinking my cocoa after four days of non-stop work meetings, I saw a documentary on the History Channel that captivated me immediately. It was about “El camino de la muerte” (”Death road” in English), a road in Bolivia averaging 200-300 annual deaths, for which it is known as the world’s most dangerous road.
As a […]
—Why are you making that culo face?
—[silence]
—What’s wrong??? Are you mad at me? Have I done something wrong???
—My server is down again. I can’t work
—Again?… Seems like you need to change hosting companies…
—I can’t. Media Temple is supposed to be THE BEST
—Oh
—Yeah [back to culo face]
What are you supposed to do when you are already […]
Joining Joey in his late 30s and Jennifer in her early 30s, today I have experienced my first episode as an old fart…
For those that don’t know me very well, I should say that I am a poker-face scorpion, cold and smooth velvety thing that rarely se despeina when upset or frustrated. HOWEVER… in a […]
OUCH!… Where did that come from?…
A slap surprises you, humiliates you, hurts, and makes you wonder. But not all slaps are made equal: Some hurt to tears, some make you angry. In any case, a slap can be identified by the relentless presence of the aggressor in my thoughts for a long time. I repeat: […]
Posts written in moments of ira e intenso dolor.
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