Hamlet..

I was just reading a book of Shakespeare's tragedies, I like a lot of his different plays from MacBeth, Romeo and Juliet but one of my all-time favorites is Hamlet. Some may find this play to be odd and confusing. But for me it is interesting I see it as man that is conflicted about his father the King's death and the prompt to manage of his mother the Queen to his uncle. I know this sounds odd but it is Shakespeare, in this book Hamlet sees his father as a ghost therefore driving him crazy. I am not telling you the whole story but believe me when I tell you it is a great story. I have seen Hamlet on stage and in many movies but the best one was when the well known actor Mel Gibson played Hamlet. I have been wanting to see it again but for some reason it's not shown very often on TV. Mel Gibson played Hamlet so well that he made you feel and understand why his character acted did what he did, after seeing that performance I have only preferred to see that version of Hamlet. I am sure that Shakespeare himself would've been proud. So if anyone out there hasn't seen Mel Gibson as Hamlet you are terribly missing out. The movie came out in 1990, so if you have a chance rent it and watch it.

Ancestry line

It's been a couple weeks since I have written on here, I have been investigating my own family tree. My dad's side of the family is easy, my grandmother and great-grandmother filled in all the missing pieces since I was a child. My mother's side is the one I am curious about, I never properly knew my mother's parents.My maternal grandmother died before I was born what I know from her is that she was from Texas. So I decided to look up my mother side of the family I knew minimal information but now I believe I discovered more. My mother is American, her mother was born in Texas by a Texan mother and a Mexican descent father, her father was born in Mexico by an Italian father and native American mother. My mother was surprised to find that her grandfather was from Italy, she knew her grandmother was Native American but could not find the name of the tribe unfortunately neither could I. But I did find that someone out there identified my grandfathers stepmother as his mother, when I told my mother this she was shocked no wonder we could not find more information on my grandfather. Sadly to say I could not find more on my maternal great grandparents, the only thing I know is that both great-grandmothers were Native American. I am glad that at least my mom can say that she is just American, she may have family members that may still reside in Mexico and are truly Mexicans. Neither me nor my mom will be deny that we have family in Mexico, we are now sure of our families line. I have been teased repeatedly by my cousins calling me Mexican which I am not, since my father is from Peru and my mother is American I consider myself Peruvian/American. Now I have proof to correct my cousins, seeing that they are all significantly older than me they may not believe me but frankly I don't care. I'm just glad that I could find something for my mom to know more about her family. Now all that is left is to find out the tribes that both great-grandmothers were from, which I think will be the hardest to find. I hope everyone out there can find or know where their beginnings are. It's always fun to find out!

Just a thought to help...

I was watching a lifetime movie that truly made me mad. The story was about a woman that fell madly in love with a man, it started out like any beautiful romance. He was caring, sweet, kind, everything you can imagine a gentleman to be. Then months go by and the guy becomes jealous, overbearing, and worse of all violent. The girl gets hit, punched, slapped for any reason while the guy idles by with puppy dog eyes begging for her forgiveness. Well as you can imagine it went on until the girl wised up and listen to the people that truly DID care about her. What makes me mad is that some women truly love so much that they become blind to the obvious. I, as a self proclaimed, independent, smart, strong woman has also fallen prey to blind love. I know that sometimes it's hard to admit when you're wrong and you make a mistake about someone but it's even harder when it is someone you care for. What I saw in this movie, when the girl blamed herself for being hit made me think of all the women out there that actually think like that. Just because we're women and men think they are superior doesn't mean they have a right to lay a hand on us. Maybe in the olden times it was okay but not today. So to all the women out there defend yourself if you can't physically then find a way!! Here's another piece of advice if you have a best friend or anyone who tells you they see something not right in your relationship,listen take into consideration what they are telling you. Their concern may be on the right track. Well that is all for today….

One of my hidden talents....

As many of you know or may not, one of my many passions is to write. Many people don't know this but I started writing when I was in my early teens. I started with poetry, short stories, lyrics and ended with full on novels/novelettes. I am the first to say that my writing maybe anything but conventional. You might not believe this but when I started writing my first long story I wanted to write a cute romance or love story. It ended up being a story about a stalker and his prey. That is when I realized that my mind was better set for stories about mysteries, crimes and of course the unnatural. I am not saying I'm a weirdo, but since I have a background in theater and the dramatic arts I have the ability to stretch my imagination through many boundaries. My first book is a book of fiction/mystery, I will admit that a lot of the names in the book were taken from ones that I know yet no one is personally portrayed. Shoot I even put a few ex's in the book granted something might or might not accidentally on purpose happen to them. My point being that I like to write maybe my writing is unconventional but I can guarantee it is interesting. My next book has the same two heroines/investigators/crime solvers, unlike many books I wanted to write a book about women being the tough, stubborn, and aggressively determined without mentioning they are also latina's. I'm still writing I second novel and at the moment I am taking a break to write this blog, who knows when I'll be done but eventually I will. Like I was saying before I have also written poetry, a lot of my poetry are sweet and short some are long and explanatory. I also have poetry that is dark, sad and downright scary. I just found a stack, to fill about three books, of pure poetry in which I read and what I had written about was deep for being so young and innocent. Then others I did remember writing were about my crushes and my growing pains. Back then I was even in love with Jordan Knight from New Kids on the Block and I believe one of the poems was about him, I even found the poem I wrote while looking at my huge Elvis Presley portrait. As weird as you may think that is, yeah I did it! I am not ashamed of what I wrote about or will write about in the future.