Letters from Grenada

Archive for January 21st, 2009

introducing the Obama cartwheel

I am proud to introduce Joaquin the illustrious Bean, pioneer of the Obama cartwheel.
I wish I had video, but I had an epic fail mommy moment, which means I had no camera ready. I’ll try to get him to do it again, but I doubt it’ll be the same because it was so [...]

Posted on January 21st, 2009 under Grenada. Tags: inauguration, motherhood, obama. Comments: 1

maria at piscesinpurple dot com

My name is María. I like wasabi, patronize bunny rabbits and think red wine really needs to stop pretending it's not purple.

I lived in Caribbean for four glorious years. My son - Joaquín the illustrious Bean - was born on the island of Grenada. He's beautiful, brilliant and has two birth certificates.

Now we're back in the land of snow and afternoon sunsets, and all the diet Coke and Thomas the Tank Engine in the world won't cushion the blow of such culture shock.

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