Culture in the Blender

I’ve been spending some time reading and commenting on posts at TCKID and since I started, for some reason, every time I’m in the shower I feel like I’m in Beijing. The showers don’t look alike. Nothing changed about this shower. But evidently, something about showering in a certain state of mind apparently makes me [...]

Recently, I asked my grandmother for a cookie recipe that I really like. They’re very crisp and tender, and the closest cookies I’ve had like them are those “Danish butter cookies” you can buy in tins. Of course, store-bought is never as good as home-made, and the tins (at least here in the US) are [...]

I recently joined a TCK forum site called TCKID. Someone posted a link to a video by a TCK artist called Makiza. This is a song called La Rosa de los Vientos. Here are the lyrics and the English translation. A veces quisiera desaparecer del mapa Volver donde yo nac� Pero no es tan papa, [...]

A while back, my boyfriend’s (sambo/avomies) sister told him, after him mentioning that the dollar was falling, that the dollar falling was some kind of lie or conspiracy or misrepresentation. I’m not sure how the wording was put, I wasn’t there. But she clearly hadn’t heard of it in the probably 2+ years that it’s [...]