Mafe Maria: A Creative Playground by Maria Q. Stultz
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Many moons ago, on the last year before I could graduate as an Industrial Engineer, my program required me to take three elective courses in the Social or Humanities areas. I went for really enjoyable choices: Human Sexuality, Theater Theory, and Seminar in Music Literature.
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). [...]
La sonrisa que ahora adorna el encabezado de esta pagina es de un viejo amigo del cual no se nada en casi 10 años. Nos conocimos en la sesion de entrenamiento para recien contratados de Avianca (la aerolinea Colombiana). Yo empezaba como analista financiera; el era piloto de helicopteros. Fuimos amigos por mucho tiempo, y [...]
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. [...]
Photo Credit: “The Rage” by theorem . . . . . . . . . . Okay, so this is the kind of stuff that makes me jealous of not living in a big, fun, crazy city… The event is called “Bring Your Own Big Wheel”. It’s a big wheel race down Lombard Street (Yeah… [...]
Ayer estuve un poco baja de animo. Resulta que hace desde un mes empece este blog sin saber muy bien por que. Solo sabia que queria escribir, en parte para mi, y en parte como el principio de una estrategia para convertirme en una mas de las web celebrities que leo todos los dias, para [...]
One summer day in the early 90s, while my sister and I were vacationing at my parents’ place in Caracas, I was returning home from a morning at the pool. I was preparing to take a shower, and as soon as I had pulled my shirt off, a horrible emergency siren went off. Apparently there [...]
After much time spent as a lurker reading and enjoying other people’s blogs, this is the year in which I’ve finally decided to stick my patita in the pool and begin writing publicly. This is that embarrassing first (well, ok: 11th) post documenting the genesis of this web site, and my first attempt to join [...]
Hoy tengo que salir del closet, y finalmente admitir que me encanta la musica de Ricardo Arjona. Desde hace algunos años empezaron a gustarme varias de sus canciones, y no se por qué la sensacion de “guilty pleasure” cada vez que compraba alguno de sus discos. Tal vez mi impresion era que Arjona era conocido [...]
This week I received a well-traveled green booklet, titled “Geography Project”. The book belongs to “David”, a 6th grade student in Florissant, MO, who sent it out around October, last year. David asks the recipients of the book to write a little bit about themselves and the place where they live, and then to send [...]
El concepto de “ñero” (un colorido personaje de la sociedad Colombiana) es algo que varias veces he intentado explicar a diferentes personas. La mayoría de veces, basta con listar unas pocas características del personaje, e interpretar una corta escena con la voz y expresión facial típica de un ñero. Aunque varios ñeros provienen de los [...]
A few nights ago, after watching the episode where Iron Chef Chinese loses a potatoes battle against a female challenger, Joey and I got into a conversation about secret ingredients that would suck. We joked about lettuce ever being a secret ingredient – which we thought would be pretty lame, and this triggered a fantasy [...]
An umbrella category for all entries that have more to do with me, my life, and interests, than with my work as an artisan and web designer.
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