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May 15, 2026May 15, 2026Mexi-Vocabulario

Mexi-Vocabulario: ¡Comadre!

Today’s word is not the exception – and if you speak any level of Spanish you probably have heard this one at one point or another – ¡Comadre!

January 4, 2025January 4, 2025Travel

Let the good times roll in Southeast Louisiana

Laissez les bon temps roulez. And the good times do roll in the southeastern parishes of the Creole State. I found out recently. Almost as easily as this famous Louisiana expression rolls off the tongue.

December 26, 2024December 26, 2024Mexican Culture, Mexican Lifestyle

Holiday and Traditions 2024

Whether we continue to prepare ponche or instead opt to try something new. Even if we are not in the same city, will we continue to honor and celebrate the memories we once shared together? Will we carry on a portion of those holiday traditions with us in our own way? These are all rhetorical questions, of course. Not meant for us to answer for anyone else but for ourselves.

December 20, 2024December 26, 2024Mexican Culture, Music

Mexico Dedicates Immigrant Anthem

“We present the Migrant Anthem, performed by the collective Legado de Grandeza. For it being their day, we have prepared this gift with all our hearts for our fellow countrymen and countrywomen on the other side of the border.” That is the official description published by the Mexican government of President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo this week with the release of this new anthem for migrants, or expats that was just released.

December 26, 2022December 26, 20222023, Life

Evolving Tradiciones to Welcome a New Year!

This year has been nothing if not unexpected. Earlier this month I was meticulously cleaning up the photo albums on my phone for about three or four hours. To be honest, doing so was not something I had planned to do – especially not over the end of year holidays, but once I got started I couldn’t stop. Soon enough the word purge entered my mind and I decided that is precisely what I was doing.

March 25, 2020July 11, 2020Entertainment

Stay Home, Work Safe in Houston

On week two of our self-isolation experience in Houston, the city has officially issued a Stay Home, Work Safe initiative through April 3, 2020. On today’s episode we share how we are coping with the “new normal,” what we are noticing on social media from brands, individuals and influencers, and our overall thoughts on saying something when it counts.

September 20, 2019September 20, 2019Mexican Culture

Skipping the celebrating this Hispanic Heritage Month

This year, I haven’t written very much about Hispanic Heritage Month. Well, I haven’t written very much at all. But for the first time in as long as I can remember the month known as Hispanic Heritage Month has arrived and it hasn’t inspired so much as a second thought from me.

June 25, 2019June 25, 2019Daily Living, Familia

The Goals of an Everyday Human

In life we grow up to explore our strengths and weaknesses. That’s because, we let those two things define and determine the outcome of our futures. I believe it’s safe to assume that for every human in existence a goal has been set. Whether that goal is to lose 10 pounds by the end of a week or simply to make ends meet and put food on the table for the family. Some of these goals are met and others are tragically given up on.

June 11, 2019June 11, 2019Language

Grit

It’s getting no, and not taking it for an answer.
It’s being told that you can’t, and figuring out how to do it anyway.
It’s being willing to work.
It’s being willing to sacrifice.

February 11, 2019February 10, 2019Life

Blogging is like wearing an old pair of tennis shoes.

No matter how many times you tuck them away in the back of your closet, underneath all the newer pairs of shoes you’ve accumulated over the years, there’s just something that nudges at you to pull them out and put them on every once in a while.

January 27, 2019January 13, 2019Travel

Hot Spots to Wine and Dine in Houston

Houston is nothing if not delicious. You cannot visit the city without becoming at least a little jealous of our prowess when it comes to the culinary arts. So, if you’re hungry, get here soon!

January 13, 2019January 13, 2019Travel

When in the Lone Star State, Oh the Things You Will See

Whether it’s the charm of the hill country, Dallas during the Texas State Fair, or Austin during SXSW, there’s never a shortage of things to do and discover when you’re in the Lone Star State. And that’s not even including the dozens of small towns you’ll visit along the way when you’re driving from one major city to another. In Texas, we drive. That’s just our way of life.

January 4, 2019January 11, 2019Entertainment

Guy time at our house is movie time

It’s a brand new day for Anjelica in our home these days. Her little boy who once used to revel at any opportunity to cuddle next to her and talk about his day – and seemingly his every thought – is now almost a young man. Or as he would have us believe, a man (albeit a very young one at that). These days I’m his confidant in our family unit.

November 4, 2018November 4, 2018Los Metiches

The journey is only the beginning

As you might be aware, we’ve been holding workshop sessions for the last few months. Anjelica and I decided it was time to put our “money where our mouths had been” and try to do something to help others in our community to get more proactive online. We decided to start our Blogging Workshop Series where we are basically trying to teach people how to start and grow their own successful blogs. It’s been an eye opening experience to say the least, and to be quite honest, it’s also proving to be a huge learning opportunity for the two of us. Not only because we are evaluating and kind of figuring things out for our own online brands all over again – we never did anything like this when we started out. But also because this is the first time we have held a teaching role for such an extended period of time. Let me tell you, I have a new found respect for educators at all levels.

September 21, 2018September 17, 2018Travel

Becoming Bentonvillians in Arkansas

Unless you’ve been to Bentonville, it’s hard to put into perspective the experience of visiting Arkansas’s fastest-growing metro area. Located in the foothills of the Ozarks and bustling with business and entrepreneurship, this once sleepy little town with a population of no more than 30, today still feels like a modern-day version of the movie Pleasantville, with its white picket fences and pristine neighborhoods surrounding the heart of Bentonville’s community – its historical Downtown Square. In the 1880s the square served as a watering place for livestock. In 1901 Bentonville shipped one-half million bushels of apples from it bounty of apple trees, which according to the U.S. Census Bureau at that time accounted for the largest number of bearing apple trees of any county in the United States. Eventually the city of Bentonville expanded around its Downtown Square and today more than 45,000 call this community in Northwest Arkansas home.

September 17, 2018September 17, 2018Travel

An Understated Oasis, Orange Beach in Alabama

There’s history in Orange Beach. We could tell as soon as we drove into this surprisingly unexpected corner of the Gulf Coast. Its location is right at the point where Alabama and Florida connect. If you’re not careful you could end up crossing state lines without even noticing. We did and for a moment it felt like we were driving right back into Florida after having bid farewell to the Sunshine State just a few minutes earlier. If you have ever driven the entire length of the Sunshine State, you will appreciate why the thought of being back in Florida after having just exited the state would be more than a little nerve-wrecking. Luckily for us, we were in fact in Alabama.

September 7, 2018September 7, 2018Mexican Culture

The ‘Pachucos y Sirenas’ Exhibition at Museo de las Americas

We were in Denver recently visiting my brother. Edgar and I were. It was the first time we had both been in that city since my brother moved there a couple of years ago. I’ll tell you more about that trip in another blog post, but one of the places I definitely wanted to check out while in Denver was the Museo de las Americas. Mainly because for years now the museum has been sending me email updates about its exhibitions and events. They always sounded so interesting, and since it’s usually Latin American art it’s right up my alley. We were surprised that the museum itself was pretty small, especially because we had heard the Latino art scene in Denver was pretty huge. However, what it lacked in size it more than made up for in its punch. The exhibition we got to explore, which was closing a day or two after our visit, was Pachucos y Sirenas.

August 6, 2018August 6, 2018Daily Living

Taking the brand new Chevy Silverado High Country for a test drive

There’s something about driving a pickup truck that just makes you feel like a Texan. People look at you differently. It says something about you, and there’s a certain sense of pride that comes attached with the keys when they are in your hands. Don’t believe me? Try it and tell me I’m wrong. I have always been a sucker for big trucks with a lot of power so it was only natural that the brand new 2018 Chevrolet Silverado High Country would win my heart over as soon as it arrived at my driveway a few weeks ago. All of five minutes later ya yo estaba en ¡MI TROCA! Notice how I claimed it as mine immediately. Two seconds after that I was cruising down my neighborhood all pumped up about how nice the interior of the truck was as well. I mean, it came equipped with the works. You remember how you used to drive around in your very first car hoping to run into people you knew so they could see you in your new car? Well yeah, that was basically me the whole time the truck was here. It was very, very nice.