My first pet arrived home when I was six years old and there have always been little animals in my room ever since. She was a cute kitty called Nancy. I named her after my mom’s sister, which she found quite amusing. It had black fluffy hair when she first got home, but as she […]

Last weekend was a very special one. It was not only my birthday but also a long really weekend due to a snow blizzard. Needless to say, my birthday party had to be postponed until the weather gets better, but I got to spend some great quality time at home with my parents –and they […]

Every year since of my life since I was a kid I saw my parents, family and friends make New Year’s Resolutions on December, 31st. My mom would say “I’ll lose weight and get fit this year”, but she would start it with a champagne glass in one hand and candy in the other one… […]

Christmas Eve has always been my favorite night of the year. Each December, 24th, my family would gather in a big, jolly reunion to have dinner, exchange gifts and catch up. It would all happen at Grandma’s. Grandma Eloise lived in an enormous Victorian house in Massachusetts, just a couple of miles away from Boston. […]

Do you remember that movie –My Girl, in which a little boy and a little girl kissed for the first time and everything was just perfect. Well, that’s the movies, not life. At least, that’s how I felt the day of my first kiss, which of course I expected to be magical. I was thirteen […]

My Favorite Actor If I had to say who the best actor in the world is, I’d choose Alan Rickman. He is a mature, English actor who has worked both in Theatre and in movies. He does great wherever he is. The first famous part he played was Die Hard’s Hans Gruber, a coldhearted, German […]