Mafe Maria: A Creative Playground by Maria Q. Stultz
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A few months ago Petie, Chris and I were talking about poor blog writing, and I was telling them about Maggie Mason’s book “No one cares what you had for lunch”. It may surprise you then, that I’m about to tell you what I just had for dinner, but hear me out people… I know […]
Last Saturday we bought a crib for Bolliti, and the excitement of the event kicked off in high gear all kinds of ambitious decoration plans for the nursery.
Since baby bedding appears to cost almost as much as a crib, and because I love sewing and have big plans of a contemporary decor and specific color […]
Our family and friends know it now. It was impossible to keep the suspense too long before we started receiving calls from our moms, dads, and sisters. They all wanted to know: Is it a boy or girl?…
Well, and I don’t blame them. Joey and I were so ready to know!… Up until now I […]
My version of us as Simpsons characters:
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And without comparing notes, here’s Joey’s version:
He! he!… I love that he gave himself yellow-green hair. I’ve always told him that he has green hair.
Apologies to my regular readers for the recent obsessiveness with pregnancy topics, and the narrow subject matter of this post. This one is for all pregnant women in desperate search for maternity jeans, who even before getting pregnant have the hardest time finding pants that fit well. Anyone?…
I swear I tried. Last week was my […]
When the little peanut growing inside your womb doesn’t have much material presence, you take what you can get…
I had a checkup with my doctor this afternoon. All good, all great. Time came to check on the baby’s heartbeat. I have not written about this, so I need to explain that few things compare to […]
So, no. I haven’t been dead. But the woes of the first trimester of pregnancy did take me away from a lot of things I usually enjoy… like blogging, or doing anything at all. At 15.7 weeks I’m happy to report that my energy seems to be back, as well as the appetite for delicious […]
I just heard some very powerful words that although were not new at all to me, for I have lived a lot of my life and achieved most of my goals by this rule, their message indeed needed to be remembered:
You may be feeling that it would be easier to be hearing these words if […]
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 […]
As much as I think that there are more similarities than differences among the cultures of South America and North America, I have to admit to a few minor cultural clashes — and food sacrifices — I’ve had to overcome since I came to live in the U.S. Now, not being the typical Colombian who […]
Oh yeah… Some time this week Mafe Maria has turned one year old, and an enthusiastic “Spanish” song is in order:
Japi verdei tu yu… Japi verdei tu yu… Japi verdei Mafecitaaaaa…
Japi verdei tuuuuu yuuuuuu
About a year ago I began writing publicly — and secretly. Today, on my best day, FeedBurner reports 29 subscribers to this […]
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