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Blog Name: Yucababy
Url: http://yucababy.blogspot.com
Language: English
Topics: Cubans, motherhood, writing
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Popularity: 19 Followers

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Useful Things
In my Creative Writing classes this week, we've been talking about the significant objects that appear in fiction.  Odysseus' bow and Penelope's weaving.  The golden carousel ring in The Catcher in...
The Way We Talk
 How do you like these gams, you big palooka? I've always been interested in the ways people speak.  This may be because I write, because I'm concerned with the way dialogue works, how it should so...
Six Years Old Again, at Least for a Moment
You know how sometimes, when you least expect it, you're powerfully reminded of something from long ago?  The trigger can be anything.  I remember once seeing a patrol car rush by, red and blue fla...
Four
Just like that, she isn't even a toddler anymore.  She's four years old.She's learned to pronounce her L's.  Yesterday, she swept the kitchen.  This morning, she started singing, "Na, na, na, na, n...
Two Redheads, a Pair of Four-Year Olds, and Black Bean Soup
The weather this weekend has been crummy--wet and dark.  That, compounded with Orlando being away at a conference, is a sure recipe for a miserable weekend. (As I write this, Orlando has been stuck...
Ay, Haiti
In Edwidge Danticat's short story, "Children of the Sea," one lover writes to another, the man she fears is dead, saying:"i am writing to you from the bottom of the banyan tree.  manman says that b...
Veggie, Veggie, Fruit, Fruit, Cha-cha-cha
All my life, I've moaned to anyone who would listen that I can't cook.   I can't even count the number of meals I've ruined--dinners oversalted, undercooked, burnt, toasted-when-I-should-have-roast...
Inventing a New Year: Happy 2010!
 Hoping 2010 is one, ginormous lollipop of a year!What a strange, strange year it's been.  On Facebook, all my friends are busy updating their statuses with unusual ire, bidding 2009 a "don't let t...
Hope You "Lava" This as Much as I Do
On the cover, Hokusai's "Rainstorm Beneath the Summit."  It's a volcano.  You "lava" it, too, don't you?Forgive the horrible pun.  But I'm just so excited to talk about my first issue as editor of...
On Christmas Specials
Of all the wonderful Christmas specials on TV each year, "'Twas the Night Before Christmas" has always been my favorite.  We watched it last night, and I couldn't believe I remembered the lyrics to...

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