Month: December 2019

                Right now I’m waiting outside the store where my wife and mother in law are shopping. I have been waiting for a while now and by the looks of it, it seems that I’ll be waiting for a long time.                 I don’t know about you, but I don’t enjoy waiting for anyone. Everywhere…

                “Te gusta to go to the iglesia?”                 “Do you like ir a la church?”                 The phrases above all mean the same thing (find out the meaning if you can) and are a clear example of a hybrid language that is spoken all the time by bilingual people in Miami and other cosmopolitan…

                The New Year is here. It is a new beginning for some and more of the same for most. The hype and excitement of this New Year, will quickly wear off in the next few days or weeks.                 “Happy New Year!”                 We often say this phrase to each other at midnight on…

                   Every time my wife and I go out to eat at a restaurant, we usually have to wait for a while. As we reserve our table the host invariably asks us the same question:                 “How many are in your party (or group)?”                 To which we usually reply:                 “It’s just the two…

        When I think of black days in my life, I think of sadness, destruction and despair. Why would we as Americans call the day after we celebrate Thanksgiving “Black Friday”?        As I read in the dictionary the words “grateful” and “thankful” I do not read anything about darkness,…