I can’t remember how I found out about this service, but somehow I got connected to it. YouMail is a cool voicemail service that can be used with cell phones. Basically you sign up (for free) on their site (www.youmail.com), register your phone number, do a couple set up steps on your phone, and you are ready to use their service.

“But why is their service cool?” you might be wondering and you continue “I already have voicemail on my phone.” Well. (more…)

Since about 1998/99 I have been actively working on trying to figure out this thing called identity. For the most part I am set with the whole being a girl part of my identity. Over the last few years I have been doing a lot of reading and thinking about what it means to be a person who has parents from two different cultures, two different races (my dad is not black, does that make him a white-Latino?). I have moved from wondering how I can connect with my Guatemalan cultural history to thinking about what it means to be Latina in the states, what does it mean to be mixed within the pan-Latino* population in the states, and more specifically what it means to be a woman within this context. What does it take to be considered Latina? (more…)

Here are some pictures from the Mono’s first Dogoween. She did a pretty good job with her costume and all of the puppies running around.

All in all, all of the dogs were pretty cute, and there were some other costumes that I did think were good. Oh well now we have a year to get another costume together that will impress the judges even more than this years.