It’s All Maya!

I don’t know which it is, but whatever Patrick is drinking it’s not working that well. Patrick was watching the quarter finals in the World Cup between Paraguay and Spain the other day when I came into the living room.
“Who’s playing” I said, sitting down to watch the game.
“Paraguay and Spain.”
“Who’s who?”
“Spain is red and […]

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(School Days - Mom, middle row, far left.)
My mom is an extraordinary woman who had a difficult life as a young child and some of her earliest memories are those that sound like a Stephen King novel turned into a horror movie.  Painful memories that anyone would want to forget, so I won’t go into […]

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El Paso:  I love El Paso.  It’s a place where you can breath because of the vast openness of the desert, where the stars are as big as ripe apples and you feel that you can just reach out and pluck one from the sky.  I see the beauty that surrounds this border town, but […]

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Maya Muses:  Just a little update!  We’re still in the Southwest, 70° weather, sunny blue skies.  The type of weather where you just go out with a light jacket on.  My brother Bob just e-mailed us photos of the latest snowfall in Pittsburgh!  Over 30 inches and you can’t even see our cars buried underneath […]

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Katarina, CC & Holly doing a Baile Folklorico for Grandma’s 80th birthday!
Maya Muses:  Another reason to get out the tequila and make some frozen Margaritas!  (Not that I need to find an excuse, but one reason is as good as another!!!)  Otherwise everyone in Mexico today might be speaking French and drinking Champagne!  Hmm, now that’s […]

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I’m usually the one who plays an April Fool’s Day joke on family and friends - nothing outrageous, just a little prank or two.  Well, this time my mother decided to turn the table on me.  We had talked on the phone earlier in the day and April Fool’s didn’t even come up, so when […]

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You may be asking, didn’t we just have Friday the 13th last month?  Yep, and we’ll have another one in November!  For a lot of people it’s just another day, for others it’s a lucky day, and for the rest, it’s a day they would rather stay in bed and forget about! 
 Howard K. Stern, the former […]

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For a lot of superstitious people Friday the 13th is a day they would rather avoid, but for me it’s just another day!  For my mom and one of my exes Friday the 13th always brings them good luck!  As a matter of fact, they anticipate good things happening and the Universe doesn’t disappoint; something good always […]

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It was announced today that Canada will be giving about $3.3 billion dollars to the American Automobile Industry to help in America’s struggling economy!  Who would have thought that big, rich, powerful USA (who has sent help, financial and otherwise, to so many countries around the world) would come to the point of needing help […]

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“It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas….”  No surprise that I have that song in my head; I have the Christmas tree up, the fireplace going, and I have a batch of cookies baking in the oven!  Next two things on my list, wrapping gifts and writing Christmas cards!
This year I was thinking of […]

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