Very early in the morning of October 24, I was awakened by sharp pains in my lower abdomen. Contractions. They weren’t too painful, and they were somewhat bearable. Yet within a couple of hours, they were coming on more frequently, more intensely. We timed the contractions - how often they came on, and for how [...]
I’ve told this story before, so I’ll try to keep it short - shorter than I’ve told it before. A few years ago, during a routine visit to my ob/gyn, my doctor felt a tiny lump in my right breast. Although she said she wasn’t worried, she was concerned enough to get me an appointment [...]
I’ll just get right to it: I’m going to have a baby.
That’s right. In about two months’ time, a mini-Mari will make her way into this world.
I didn’t want to say anything for a while; I wanted to keep this blog focused on the inspiration for my cookie designs and my occasional thoughts (really silly [...]
This is actually an oldie but goodie of mine (circa early 2007). I had just read a report about how frogs in parts of Costa Rica’s rain forest were dying off in alarming numbers, a sign that scientists said was concrete proof of global warming. When amphibians start to disappear in large numbers, it usually [...]
Does anyone know what kind of plant this is? I saw this on a recent walk along Manhattan Beach and I had to take a picture.
I’ll be away from the cha no ma-ri for a couple of weeks. Lately I’ve felt a little blocked, and very overwhelmed with a lot of other big things going [...]
Well, what do you think?
If you have found me through the old address for this blog, thank you for following.
So why the changes?
Last year, when I did a redesign of my site www.mischiefmari.com, I combined both my writing portfolio and my cookies portfolio and displayed them in the same place. Although I knew there were [...]
I’ve been accused of skipping over important details every now and then. I thought when I mentioned my Etsy store recently that the link to the store was in my sidebar and working, so when people asked me where the link was, I was a tad confused. But look, it’s back up! Look, to the [...]
Despite being deeply distracted by the Presidential Election - I’m still trying to grapple with the fact that in less than a week we’re going to have a new President (President-Elect, actually) - I have been doing some real work.
I just completed the text and website design/building for an artist’s website. Irma Vega de Bijou [...]
Since I put my creative pen down late last year, I haven’t thought too much about writing fiction. Can I tell you something? It feels okay. If I started to detail what really happened with my script, I would embark on a rage, to say the least. Writing fiction equals a lot of head-bashing. So [...]
My wrists are killing me.
I first noticed pain in my wrists and fingers way back in 1992 when I started out as a copy editor at Dow Jones. I’ve had repetitive stress injury ever since. The cure: stop typing. The dilemma: I have to work. The secondary dilemma: it makes baking and decorating a major [...]