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Of Windows, Breads, and Christmas

The children of this island remain marked by fate, in Miami or in Havana, we are incomplete beings.

Negligent Mothers

This weekend, on a bus, I observed a mother with her five-year-old child. They were sitting in front of me, the little one, by the window…

What to do on December 24th?

Lots of people are planning a full-out party, but the truth is everything is hard, there isn’t enough food for us to plan a traditional meal.

My Excitement for the New Year

I sign into my account on Chess.com and an announcement finally appears on the home page: 2024 Chess.com Daily Chess Championship.

The Situation Cubans Are Currently Living

My house got robbed almost two weeks ago. It was almost a robbery of oversight. But not so much oversight.

Geriatric Future

As a child, the sight of a beggar used to hurt me and I didn’t understand how people could carry on walking by, indifferent. Today…

The Blonde God Ryan O’Neal is Gone

Death never touches icons. It seems to me that it should not happen, so that they last and preserve their splendor.

Dirty News

I don’t want to politicize events that happen everywhere in the world, but I feel that Cuba is enshrouded in a dark hole of bad energy.

My First Encounter with a Man of Importance

Like Gurdjieff, the first man of importance I met was my father. I believe I owe him this public recognition, because he left this world without knowing I felt that way.

Yes, I Drank the Coca Cola of Oblivion

It is not a real drink, but a symbol that I needed to forget, find inner peace, and heal, or as we say in good Cuban; give myself a chance.