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February 21, 2012July 19, 2024 Blog boy birthday parties, cook apps, Featured, Lifestyle, Parenting, rock climbing gym in los angeles, Rockreation, wikets

Latest Wikets Rec: Rockreation Rock Climbing Gym in West Los Angeles

Latest Wikets Rec: Rockreation Rock Climbing Gym in West Los Angeles

I posted recently about my latest obsession, the Wikets app for iPad and iPhone. It’s not just because I’m working with Wikets,

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February 13, 2012 Uncategorized babies, birth, giving birth, Lifestyle, Parenting

Baby

Baby

All of the sudden there were 20 people in the room. I was in labor about to deliver. This should not have

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February 10, 2012 Uncategorized arizona, banned books, Latina, mexican american studies, Parenting, Tucson

The House on Mango Street – One of Tucson's Banned Books

The House on Mango Street – One of Tucson's Banned Books

I’ve been trying to figure out a way to do something about Arizona shutting down the Mexican-American studies program in Tucson. I

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February 9, 2012 Uncategorized cbs los angeles, discover the arts, Featured, Latina, Lifestyle, Miramonte Elementary, MomsLA, ozomatli, Parenting

KPCC, Discover the Arts LA, and Ozomatli

KPCC, Discover the Arts LA, and Ozomatli

While I haven’t been very good about posting on my blog, I have been writing for other places. I wrote on MomsLA.com

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February 8, 2012 Uncategorized Gluten Free, Latina, Lifestyle, Parenting

Blogging. What's That Again?

Blogging. What's That Again?

After years of talking about it, I’ve finally switched over from Blogger to WordPress. I finally have category pages so I can

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January 11, 2012 Uncategorized Latina, Lifestyle, Parenting

Resolution Shmezolution: I'm Just Trying to Get Through the Day

Resolution Shmezolution: I'm Just Trying to Get Through the Day

Uggh. Everywhere I go people are talking about their New Year’s resolutions. It was even a homework assignment in my son’s kindergarten

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December 29, 2011 Uncategorized Gluten Free, Latina, Parenting, Uncategorized

To Tamale or not to Tamale

To Tamale or not to Tamale

I can remember only one time that we had homemade tamales at Christmas. My mom and a couple of her friends got

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December 22, 2011 Uncategorized holiday cookies, making christmas cookies, Parenting, Sony Handycam

Making Holiday Cookies with the Kids – Video

Making Holiday Cookies with the Kids – Video

There are so few pictures of me when I was a kid. I am the youngest of 4 and by the time

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December 19, 2011 Uncategorized casey wilson, celiac disease, Gluten Free, Latina, occupy la, Parenting, wasserman foundation

We Art the 99%, Celiac Disease, and Happy Endings

We Art the 99%, Celiac Disease, and Happy Endings

Things have been very busy over at MomsLA.com where I am editor and cofounder. I haven’t been posting as much at YvonneInLA,

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December 8, 2011 Uncategorized gender inequality, homeboy industries, homegirl cafe, jane fonda, Jennifer Siebel NEwsom, Latina, life after 50, Lifestyle, lisa ling, Parenting, Ted talks, Tedx, third acts

Tedx Women – A Call to Action

Tedx Women – A Call to Action

This post first appeared on Technorati Women  Shamila Kohestani was trapped in her house for years. She couldn’t read a book or study

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December 3, 2011 Uncategorized disney christmas, disneyland christmas, disneyland holiday, haunted mansion holiday, Parenting, Reviews, small world holiday

Holidays at Disneyland

Holidays at Disneyland

Disneyland is a pretty magical place for me as I’ve said before, but Disneyland during the Holidays is even more special. For

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Instead of staying up last night reading about all Instead of staying up last night reading about all the f-d up things going on in the world, I listened to podcasts about all the f-d up things in the world while I made For Goodness Cakes 🎂 🧁s.  It was my first attempt at cookies and cream and glad I researched what to do before I made it. I used boxed cake mix and subbed whipped egg whites for whole eggs to counter the denseness of the cookie crumbs and milk for water (I don’t remember why). For the strawberry frosting, I used cream cheese and whipping cream along with the butter, powdered sugar and dehydrated strawberries so the frosting wouldn’t be too sweet with the cookie crumbs. At first I thought this kid’s request for strawberry cake with Oreos cookies and cream and strawberry cream frosting was 🤮 but now I think she’s a culinary genius. It’s was so good I’m going to make it again but gluten free.
Did you know that the Minneapolis shooting that ki Did you know that the Minneapolis shooting that killed two children, injured 17 and traumatized countless others wasn’t the first school shooting this year?

“There have already been four shootings at K-12 schools this school year — not including today’s shooting in Minneapolis. So far in 2025, there have been at least 57 shootings at K-12 schools,” according to Everytown for Gun Safety.

It wasn’t the first Mass Shooting either. There’s been 286. As of today, 833 kids 17 and under were shot and killed, 2,236 were injured. Total number of gun deaths is 9,801 and that doesn’t include suicide. Source: Gun Violence Archive.

I’m sharing this because I don’t know what else to do. We talk and talk about making America safer but America will never be safe when about 1/3 of the country owns a gun (PEW Research). Today’s news will be added to a long list of terrible things that happened this week, this month, this year.
Vegan, vanilla tie dye cake! #losangeles #vegancak Vegan, vanilla tie dye cake! #losangeles #vegancake
I know worse things are happening in Los Angeles, I know worse things are happening in Los Angeles, but kids and young people are going without birthday cakes. I’m an occasional volunteer for the nonprofit For Goodness Cakes, where volunteers bake homemade birthday cakes for kids in foster care and children and young adults overcoming adversity. Since the ICE raids started, one of the participating organizations I’ve baked for has stopped requesting cakes because it’s not safe for their community to pick them up. So kids who are already going through a scary time won’t get the simple pleasure of having birthday cake on their very special day. It’s not the worst thing, but it really sucks.
I wrote about L.A. Taco this week for the Washingt I wrote about L.A. Taco this week for the Washington Post.
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