Mafe Maria: A Creative Playground by Maria Q. Stultz
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I always have a little bit of a hard time when guests leave my home after a few days visit. No, I’m no Santa Martha Stewart to host friends and relatives with the luxury and exquisite thoughtfulness of the best Bed & Breakfast in town. Yet, the loneliness left once they leave is always there… [...]
—You know? I don’t think I’m pregnant, but I should not be having any alcohol or sushi any more… I mean: WHAT IF I was pregnant, and I just had a beer last night? —Ok… But you said that you don’ think… —I know… But I should be getting my period tomorrow and I still [...]
Without much research, I dare to say that when it comes to answering the existential question of the purpose of one’s life, there are four kinds of people: Those that don’t care. Or better yet: Don’t think there is one. For them there is only one life, and after that there’s nothing. Therefore, living this [...]
Lorelle’s latest blogging challenge is to write about your hobbie. While I don’t intend to give you all the nitty gritty about the many activities I enjoy doing with my free time, this topic ties nicely with a subject I’ve been wanting to write about for some time now: This post is about two special [...]
It only takes a second or less to have your life dramatically changed, doesn’t it? Monday night, at about 8 pm the phone rang… English being my second language, I still have a hard time with the beginning words of strangers on the phone, so I didn’t really understand who this person was, but he [...]
This is a postcard I received two months ago from my doctor in Dallas reminding me of my annual checkup. Being now in a different city, and given our self-imposed deadline to start trying for a baby, this meant several “awful” things for me: 1) I needed to find a new doctor and make an [...]
OH DEAR GOD! Please excuse me if you think my honest and barbaric feelings make me a shallow evil horrible woman, but I still don’t know my (future) children, and the perspective of suffering this transformation really upsets me, worries me, and almost makes me think it twice. I hope this is not received as [...]
This morning, as I downloaded the log files for my sites I realized that today’s date is 06.06.06. I thought “Hmmm three sixes… I think that’s the devil’s number”. I googled 666, and sure thing it’s called “the number of the beast”. Scared, because every 666 link in Google has a devilish title, and I [...]
My mom told me this as a big secret, so shhhhh.. Don’t tell anyone… She recently discovered that her cable T.V. account had accrued 3000 “stars”, a fortune she could use to get any pay-per-view movies. She checked the movie listings and found this cool and intriguing movie called “Los Cinco Sentidos” (The Five Senses). [...]
Not yet. I do know some day I will want to have had children. So does Joey. But I’ve just never been the kind of woman that dreams of being a mom. I like babies and children… Sure… (when they are well behaved). But I’ve never seriously pictured myself with one living in my house. [...]