Author: Connie Perez

Hello, my fellow lottery enthusiasts. If like me, you’re getting ready for work AGAIN this morning, let me echo what most of us already know:  EVERY day we are alive and kicking is a win – –  said no one who didn’t hit a $1.58 Billion jackpot.  🫤 🤣  No, but really, we have a…

It has been a bittersweet week. The dark-chocolate-orange-frosting kind. And so this post is dedicated to Retiree Group 1 :  I wish you all good health, delight and success as you move forward in life. Thank you for being amazing coworkers and even better friends! We will miss our Cafecito time together. Enjoy your stress-free…

Good morning! Tell me four things you appreciate about your normal, ordinary day.  Should be easy, ‘cause you are blessed, and you know it. I’ll start, here are my four: -That first sip of coffee while I whisper my morning prayers.-My memory accessing special moments.-Conversations with my family.-Typing with all ten digits. When life turns…

Hello, friends and family. Today, I’ll cut right to the chase. I want you to think of all your blessings right now. Quite a number of them, right? Now I’d like to offer you an opportunity to pay them forward and make a difference in someone’s life. Click on the link below or scan the…

They say every seashell has a story. Well, here’s a branch-full of tales. I thought you’d enjoy this photo. Some speculate the “shell tree” tradition got started as a way to memorialize loved ones or to make a wish. I think it’s pretty cool, don’t you? Much like seashells, we are all uniquely different, and…

The thing with life dreams, my friends, is that they don’t have a chance in hell of coming true if you don’t have them.  But what if my dream is not in God’s plan for me? you might ask. Okay, legit question. Here’s my answer: What do you have to lose? Maybe initially your dream…

We were just talking about a wonderful vacation and somehow the conversation turned to our wrinkles and ailments. That’s common in my circle of friends, but I must say that I feel our sense of gratitude and excitement of living is somehow pushed to the side every time we do that. I have to stop…

Snowbirds be like “Well hello, summer!”Floridians:  “Wait, what?” That’s because it’s been feeling like summer to us since like forever. I mean, when was the last time you didn’t wear your flip-flops? But in real-time, yesterday was the official start of the season — more daylight to enjoy the outdoors, extra vitamin D (it goes…

My siblings and I had an amazing father — reliable, supportive, hard-working, encouraging, loving, charming — he was our superhero. He was that to us and to family and friends who thought the same of him. Papi was the kind of father that drives you to want to be a better parent yourself. The kind…

When life hands us lemons….If you follow this blog, you know I touch on the subject of adversity from time to time. It is one of those things in life we can’t avoid and, to be honest, writing about it, even if it’s a couple of sentences, helps me alter my mindset and face whatever…