Maile & Son

Maile Hernandez

“Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.” - Thomas Edison - “Well-behaved women seldom make history.” - Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

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A singer/performer in my youth, I was a voice major at Indiana University, but became a lawyer when I moved to Arizona after I graduated...[Read More]

Archive for March, 2009

Not Normal

Tuesday, March 31st, 2009

I was talking to my dad the other day about achievements.  This movie “Man on Wire,” about the guy who crossed the Twin Towers on a wire - it was his obsession.  Whenever we are passionate about something enough to actually make it happen, that passion is by its very definition not normal.
To be normal [...]

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Attack of the Transgressions

Sunday, March 29th, 2009

It’s always in the middle of the night.  It starts with some initial guilt or shame.  Maybe I had a fight with Conrad.  Maybe I drank too much.  Maybe someone sassed me in the checkout line, or flipped me off while I was driving.  Maybe I made some mistake at work.
Whatever it is, I’ll wake [...]

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Firecar

Friday, March 27th, 2009

Here’s a picture of our new car.  Every night Max wants to go out he repeats “Firecar!  Firecar!”
firecar
 

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Max’s h

Thursday, March 26th, 2009

 
Got the following email from Max’s school:  “Hi there! Corinna asked me to send the attachment of Max’s letter “h” from handwriting this week, he did a really great job and she wanted to make sure you both got to see it.
 
Have a great day!!
 
 
Carolyn”
So, without further ado, I present to the world Max’s letter [...]

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Political savvy

Tuesday, March 24th, 2009

If you ask Max, “Max, who’s the President?”
He will reply “Pwes - ih - den . . .” [...wait for it...] “. . . Bamma!”
I love that guy.  Conrad said the other day that he’s like a shot of sweet cream.  The other day he politely told a neighborhood dog, “Go ‘way, clweese [Max-speak for [...]

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Watching What We Eat - my cousin’s book!

Wednesday, March 18th, 2009

Everyone check out my cousin’s book, which will be coming out May 1, 2009, published by Continuum Publishing Group.
Watching What We Eat - Amazon page
Watching What We Eat - Facebook page
“Cooking is so huge on television today that it has made chefs as famous as movie stars. From the earliest days of flickering black-and-white sets, [...]

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Auditions for the Biggest Dork!

Thursday, March 12th, 2009

 
I auditioned the other day to sing the national anthem at a Diamondbacks game this season (my audition is pictured above).  I did OK, not brilliant, but the funny part is how I got there.
Conrad was dropping me off, and there were a bunch of confusing road closures all around the area of Chase Field.  So [...]

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Hmm.

Monday, March 9th, 2009

My life isn’t that great, and yet I’m happier than I have been in many years.
I love my gorgeous boy.  Beauteous cutey-ous.  The best person in the world.  I’ve never known someone so sweet.  I must have a crush on him because I can’t think about him without smiling.
I love running.  I’ve been running almost [...]

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Twitter is killing my blog

Friday, March 6th, 2009

I have no motivation to keep a blog.  Every random thought I have I stick on Twitter now.  I don’t have to save them up and put them into a blog entry.
Twitter kills!
I should have known, the lazy man’s blogging method is taking over the internet society!

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Why I’ll never be President

Monday, March 2nd, 2009

Because I’m stupid enough to keep watching The Bachelor, even though it is demeaning and utterly ridiculous!
I never do run-on sentences but this show has lowered my IQ so much that here goes:
Seriously, how can a setup where the anointed Bachelor (who all the women on the show would love even if he looked like [...]

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