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Cereales con Cariño: What’s really important

I’m Spanish. My grandmother raised me alongside my father. We celebrated all those wonderful family traditions, and family gatherings filled with love. I remember our breakfasts, sitting at the table listening to the radio, which also gave us the time every minute in the middle of telling us a story. It was called Radio Minuto. […]

by Laura Basset Carbonell

My comeback to cooking and authentic Mexican taste.

I haven’t cooked for a long time. It’s taken me a while to tie that apron back on since I stopped cooking a few years ago. They say that how one feels spills into the food you’re cooking, so cooking without joy made my meals feel a bit sad and tasteless. Just like the movie “Like […]

by Laura Basset Carbonell

It’s in the struggle that we learn what we are made of

Only through struggle and pain do we learn what we are truly made of. It’s in these times that we are tested and become aware of our strengths and weaknesses which allow us to grow and have more faith in ourselves and in life. If we made it through a rough patch, we certainly can face […]

by Laura Basset Carbonell

Why I choose to wear “give-up” clothes

The other night, my friend and I watched a movie where this woman was chastising her recently divorced friend because she was wearing “give-up clothes.” While I found it hilarious it wasn’t so funny when my own friend looked at me and said, “Don’t laugh so hard because you are wearing give-up clothes around the […]

by Laura Basset Carbonell

The importance of mourning loss

I thought that the best cure for pain was getting busy and trying to forget at any cost what had transpired. But it doesn’t work that way. Or at least it hasn’t worked for me. Those solutions are temporary. Getting over pain takes a period of mourning. Now, I’m at that point, and I’m not […]

by Laura Basset Carbonell

Deep breaths of life

I guess it was a month and a half ago when I started really taking deep breaths of life, peace and serenity. It had been a while since I had felt this way, in fact, years, no wait! Maybe never before! That nagging feeling of dissatisfaction has left me at long last, as I’ve accepted and […]

by Laura Basset Carbonell

The art of Joy

My new favorite word that can fix almost any problem I may have. I never gave it much thought before until I read Spark Joy, but now it has become the measure of what I want in my life and what I don’t. When in doubt, I do a joy check. Does this person, thing, […]

by Laura Basset Carbonell

The stranger.

I’m sitting on the bus trying to hold my tears back. My eyes are still swollen from the early morning cry. I’m feeling lost and deeply sad. I then notice there is a handsome man next to me. He looks my way and I, in turn, look away searching clumsily for my earphones and start listening […]

by Laura Basset Carbonell

Rising from the ashes.

It’s been five years and a half since the hurricane of change hit my life. Some things went down hard and ugly, but it also brought many blessings. As I write this, Florida weather has turned cold, just a day before I head back to San Francisco where I made my home 21 years ago.

by Laura Basset Carbonell

Take me home

There was shattered glass everywhere. I got up from bed and made my way carefully to the window where a beautiful full moon greeted me. I had never seen such grandeur before. It seemed to beckon me.