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If you want to put a plate of food on your family’s table in Cuba, you must go to a stand or market to look for some vegetables every day.

Today, I woke up with the masochistic determination to wait in line and buy food at my neighborhood store. In reality they are crowds…

My friend told me that her boy had caught COVID-19 and had to be admitted into a school that had been turned into a hospital.

In the 1970s & 1980s, getting your hands on a pair of jeans in Cuba meant seeing yourself get mixed up in a spy movie with plots and twists…

I have a friend who got tired of waiting for better times here to have a child. She is 38 years old and her biological clock is ticking…

I’ve been trying to record the song of the Northern Mockingbird, who has chosen the highest branches of my avocado tree as its stage.

Yesterday, I woke up wanting to be happy. In order to stop anything from getting in the way the first thing I did was put on some music.

At home we are all delighting with the latest novel by Cuban writer Leonardo Padura, widely read abroad but barely mentioned in our country.