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Mother’s Day in Cuba and The Value of Tradition

The sinister weight orbiting this island, dispersing family ties, recycling despair, has particularly damaged the role of mothers…-

The Holguin tradition known as the May Romerias has ended. It’s a practice that began here in the eighteenth century – 1790 to be exact…

It sounds like the title of a song, but it’s not—it’s just what happened recently. It was one of those blackout Sundays.

May 1st has always been a holiday. This year, though, they gave workers time off from Thursday the first, right through Monday the 5th.

A year has passed since I arrived in the United States of America. It feels like it was just yesterday.

A friend of ours still living in Cuba, recently wrote to us, nearly in tears, because his phone fell to the ground and the screen shattered.

Here I am the skeptic, tired of this routine, of mosquitoes, shortages, & blackouts, searching for things in Cuba that are still beautiful.

Few things transport me to a past moment with such overwhelming clarity as a melody or a scent. They are perfect time machines.

Doing anything in today’s Cuba can be extremely complicated, but building a house is a Herculean, titanic task.

An anonymous young man walks down the street carrying a worn-out pair of sneakers with patched soles—survivors of a thousand battles.