Blog name: one step closer Location: Milwaukee About me: http://laurafern.wordpress.com Rating statistics Average rating of my blogs: 5.0 Average rating of my Talkbacks: 4.9 Average rating I've given others: Nothing rated. |
| Recent blog entries | |
| Travel & Visitors Guide - May 11, 2008 | |
| Looking ahead in West Texas | |
| Almost two years ago my husband and I found out that his immigrant visa interview had been scheduled at the U.S. Consulate in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, just across the border with El Paso, Texas. We had been waiting for the interview for more than a year, so we were excited, but also terrified. My... | |
| Travel & Visitors Guide - May 8, 2008 | |
| cooking adventures | |
| On those days when I wish I could abandon responsibility for life as a vagabond, cooking international food helps me focus my energies on something productive, and hopefully, tasty. Picking up some obscure herbs or sauces at the Lanexang Asian grocery or finding a rare mamey fruit at Supermercado... | |
| Travel & Visitors Guide - May 6, 2008 | |
| Hiking El Rancho | |
| My husband was born in a beautiful and impoverished settlement in the hills of rural Puebla, Mexico. Several years ago I had the opportunity to visit his rustic birthplace, a location he usually refers to as "el rancho." I knew his family had never owned or lived on a "ranch"... | |
| Travel & Visitors Guide - May 5, 2008 | |
| Christmas in a small, Mexican town | |
| I am a lifelong Milwaukeean, raised in Elm Grove, educated in Madison, now a happy homeowner on Milwaukee's south side. My husband is from Puebla, Mexico. He came to the U.S. to live and work as a young man, and we met and married nearly four years ago. At the time we met I was infatuated with ... | |
| Recent Talkbacks | |
| Article - Oct. 13, 2008 | |
| A goodbye note from Northern Room | |
| I'm so sad! I love them... | |
| Article - Aug. 29, 2008 | |
| A pizza takeover? | |
| There is more than pizza of course, but the point of the article is that most... | |
| Article - July 31, 2008 | |
| El Chico Zuma closes but Black and White Cafe is on its way | |
| I've never been to this Zuma place, but since we are talking Mexican, and I'm... | |
| Article - July 9, 2008 | |
| Laissez Faire says au revoir | |
| Sad. This was a tasty lunch spot, but I can't imagine they did enough busines... | |
| Article - June 12, 2008 | |
| Milwaukee Talks: WUWM reporter Erin Toner | |
| Thanks for this interview with Erin! I am a public radio junkie and love lear... | |
| Article - May 25, 2008 | |
| Azteca celebrates 15 years of Mexican treats | |
| I think they might have closed. I've driven by at night a few times recently ... | |
| Article - May 20, 2008 | |
| Thai Palace is not flashy, but the food is fabulous | |
| I'll have to try this place out, but I wanted to add that I have found the be... | |
| Article - May 6, 2008 | |
| A $2,250 blog | |
| I have thought about blogging on onmilwaukee.com in the past but apparently d... | |
| Article - April 17, 2008 | |
| Jenny, this poem's for you | |
| This is great. As a kid I knew more than a few Jennys, one Jennie, even a Jen... | |
| Article - April 1, 2008 | |
| Channel 4 resorts to Gousha cardboard cutout on 6 p.m. anchor desk | |
| April Fools kids, April Fools... :) | |
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