http://www.miamiherald.com/living/columnists/ana-veciana-suarez/index.html http://media.miamiherald.com/images/logos/rss_sitelogo.gif http://www.miamiherald.com/living/columnists/ana-veciana-suarez/index.html 140 25 News, sports and entertainment from MiamiHerald.com en-us Copyright 2008 MiamiHerald.com Ana Veciana Suarez 60 Tue, 22 Jul 2008 19:25:51 EDT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss McClatchy Interactive's PubSys miamifeedback@miamiherald.com http://www.miamiherald.com/living/columnists/ana-veciana-suarez/story/608974.html http://www.miamiherald.com/living/columnists/ana-veciana-suarez/story/608974.html Sat, 19 Jul 2008 03:01 EDT For a moment I am back at that place of long ago. It is his first day of preschool. He is wearing blue Mickey Mouse sneakers and a cowlick that has swirled his hair into a hint of early rebellion. When I leave him at the door, his chin quivers. Eyes search for welcome, for familiar space. When he cries with those heart-wracking, body-heaving sobs of anger and hurt, his face turns a furious red. http://www.miamiherald.com/living/columnists/ana-veciana-suarez/story/601041.html http://www.miamiherald.com/living/columnists/ana-veciana-suarez/story/601041.html Sat, 12 Jul 2008 03:01 EDT My sister has sent me an e-mail on vacations. Along with her cheery encouragement comes an attachment, a story about the necessity of getting away to unplug, unwind and undo the stresses that torment our daily lives. http://www.miamiherald.com/living/columnists/ana-veciana-suarez/story/593045.html http://www.miamiherald.com/living/columnists/ana-veciana-suarez/story/593045.html Sat, 05 Jul 2008 03:01 EDT Most people are as happy as they make up their minds to be. In these rollercoaster times, social get-togethers have turned into therapy sessions that are equal parts career counseling and spiritual revival. Seems everybody I know is worried about his or her economic future, and that anxiety goes far beyond the expensive stops at the gas pump. http://www.miamiherald.com/living/columnists/ana-veciana-suarez/story/585128.html http://www.miamiherald.com/living/columnists/ana-veciana-suarez/story/585128.html Sat, 28 Jun 2008 03:01 EDT For years I've joked that the best contraceptive was a bawling baby at 3 a.m. I was a young mother then, still inexperienced in the ways of colic and projectile vomiting. I thought I would never get a good night's sleep again. http://www.miamiherald.com/living/columnists/ana-veciana-suarez/story/577009.html http://www.miamiherald.com/living/columnists/ana-veciana-suarez/story/577009.html Sat, 21 Jun 2008 04:01 EDT I don't get it. No matter how deeply I analyze, no matter how much I try to wrap my brain around it, I'm flummoxed by the recent spate of women chasing after underage boys. What does a grown woman see in a teenager? An adolescent who still needs his parents' permission to go on a school field trip? http://www.miamiherald.com/living/columnists/ana-veciana-suarez/story/568650.html http://www.miamiherald.com/living/columnists/ana-veciana-suarez/story/568650.html Sat, 14 Jun 2008 03:01 EDT Barb, a friend of a friend, attended her daughter's high school graduation in Melbourne last week, a festive affair that brought together several generations. In front of Barb and her husband sat a woman who was obviously more excited than most with the celebration. http://www.miamiherald.com/living/columnists/ana-veciana-suarez/story/560340.html http://www.miamiherald.com/living/columnists/ana-veciana-suarez/story/560340.html Sat, 07 Jun 2008 03:01 EDT I have great admiration for teachers. They are not paid enough nor are they respected in the manner they should be. I write this not because I'm married to one but because I live with three teenagers who spend most of their day torturing educators who have the unenviable task of harnessing their talents and inspiring their curiosity while negotiating mounds of paperwork. http://www.miamiherald.com/living/columnists/ana-veciana-suarez/story/551909.html http://www.miamiherald.com/living/columnists/ana-veciana-suarez/story/551909.html Sat, 31 May 2008 03:01 EDT For years I was the butt of this joke, a perennial favorite among my children: Do you know what birds say when they fly over our house? http://www.miamiherald.com/living/columnists/ana-veciana-suarez/story/544106.html http://www.miamiherald.com/living/columnists/ana-veciana-suarez/story/544106.html Sat, 24 May 2008 03:01 EDT This morning I huffed and I puffed and I sweated the house down. Yet, when I stepped off the elliptical machine, the display flashed a depressing message. http://www.miamiherald.com/living/columnists/ana-veciana-suarez/story/535377.html http://www.miamiherald.com/living/columnists/ana-veciana-suarez/story/535377.html Sat, 17 May 2008 03:01 EDT No doubt about it, we have a love-hate relationship with age. On one hand, we pay lip service to the white-haired wisdom that comes with the passage of time and the experience of years. On the other, youth -- at least the illusion of such -- governs the choices we make in everything from makeup to magazines and now, possibly, president. If Sen. John McCain wins in November, he would be, at 72, the oldest person ever inaugurated as a first-term president, beating out another Republican, Ronald Reagan... http://www.miamiherald.com/living/columnists/ana-veciana-suarez/story/526817.html http://www.miamiherald.com/living/columnists/ana-veciana-suarez/story/526817.html Sat, 10 May 2008 03:01 EDT A good friend of mine, a successful career woman who became the first one in her family to go to college, likes to tell this story about her eldest. Seated in an office decorated with posters and banners of college campuses, the high school guidance counselor turned to her son and asked him if he had thought of what he wanted to be. http://www.miamiherald.com/living/columnists/ana-veciana-suarez/story/518144.html http://www.miamiherald.com/living/columnists/ana-veciana-suarez/story/518144.html Sat, 03 May 2008 03:01 EDT Three network evening news shows covered the incident, Disney issued a statement, a young star wrote an apology, bloggers opined with both outrage and forgiveness, and a magazine's website crashed when the curious clicked on a few times too many. http://www.miamiherald.com/living/columnists/ana-veciana-suarez/story/509159.html http://www.miamiherald.com/living/columnists/ana-veciana-suarez/story/509159.html Sat, 26 Apr 2008 03:01 EDT A few weeks ago a friend e-mailed me the Senility Prayer: God, grant me the senility to forget the people I never liked anyway, the good fortune to run into the ones that I do, and the eyesight to tell the difference. This was intended as a humorous comeback after a mutual whining session about minor aches and pains that signaled one sure thing: We're not the women we once were. http://www.miamiherald.com/living/columnists/ana-veciana-suarez/story/482567.html http://www.miamiherald.com/living/columnists/ana-veciana-suarez/story/482567.html Sat, 05 Apr 2008 03:01 EDT I resisted doggedly for a month, fought the urge, battled the temptation. I vowed to ignore my silly prurient interests. No, I would not write about the Eliot Spitzer sex scandal. Humiliation and stupidity speak for themselves -- and we've all been there.