Archive for October 2015
To Mary Poppins, to the Supernanny: I need you!!!
*This post was written during ChicagoNow’s Blogapalooz-Hour for September 2015. During Blogapalooz we are given a prompt and we have one hour to post. This is today’s prompt: “Write a letter to a celebrity (rock star, politician, athlete, movie star, etc.) convincing them you should become best friends” Dear Mary Poppins and Supernanny: I should add... Read more »
My (hopefully) ever growing list of "deaf" movies
More than twenty years before I gave birth to a deaf son, something called my attention in one of my favorite movies, Four Weddings and a Funeral: the brother of the main character was deaf, and signing was a big part of the plot. Back then, I was attracted to signing because a boy from... Read more »
A foreigner's approach to Halloween and her quest for trick-or-treaters
The first time I ever heard about Halloween was in 1987. I was eight, and I watched E.T. in a Spanish theater, in some summer re-release on a stormy afternoon. To me those kids dressed up in costumes, walking in groups to ask for candy at neighbor’s houses were as alien as E.T. himself. It... Read more »
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In defense of the multitasking, smartphone toting moms
Heidi Stevens published a column on the Tribune the other day about why using her cell phone while she walks is OK. I am not going to condone her behavior. People who use their phones while walking on the street drive me crazy, especially if I am the one doing it. She run another column... Read more »
Why it is imperative we keep kids away from guns
It has happened again. Today an 8 year old girl died after an accidental shooting in Atlanta. Yesterday a 3 year old boy died after his brother found a loaded gun in the house and shot him while playing “cops and robbers”. Even if these were the only two, that should be more than enough.... Read more »
When did buying airline tickets become an odyssey?
I just spent two hours and a half on the phone in order to purchase our tickets to Spain for Christmas. I’m not kidding. I’m not exaggerating. I have pictures and all. In the time of online shopping, Amazon Hour, and the demise of (to my dismay) the mortar and brick shop, I had no other... Read more »
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When your baby goes under
I just held my baby while he went under general anesthesia. And that is one of the hardest things I have had to experience. Let’s set the record straight first. The baby is not such at 4 years of age. But when you hold them in your arms while they are administered anesthesia, they are... Read more »
You still have a chance to catch the Midnight Circus in the Park
When you have kids you want to start traditions that ground you as a family. This feels even more necessary if you are raising your kids in a country other than your own, where customs, holidays and traditions often feel foreign, even weird, when in reality the foreign one is you. Fall is a season... Read more »
"Another" is 45 too many: The nonsense of gun violence through the eyes of a foreigner.
I am not American. Not yet, at least. I know that this, automatically, will make my opinion on this matter unworthy to anyone on the NRA’s side. But I don’t care. I don’t care, because I may not be American yet, but I teach in American universities. My sons are American and attend American schools.... Read more »
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