Cojimar is best known for being the place where Ernest Hemmingway’s The Old Man and the Sea was situated. The seaside town, located in east Havana, has a long fishing tradition that has passed from generation to generation.
Read MoreMy occupation? That’s a long story. Many of the people I know don’t exercise the career that they studied. I graduated as a Pharmacy Dispensary Technician, then I learned to carve wood, to knit, and I studied Theology. I have always liked to write.I still have diaries from when I was a child.
Read MoreToday is like any other day, in which for some reason I am thinking about my deceased mother. I’ll never know if I could have loved her more. That’s what death is about: never more. Our affection is appraised and proven through a series of symbolic events: unselfish devotion, the desire to understand the other, the sacrifice of personal interests…
Read MoreI have a neighbor who often drops by my house when the Brazilian soap opera is on. She’s over 55, but has continued working despite being past retirement age, having labored for more than 30 years as the secretary of a textile company here in the Cuban capital.Yesterday she mentioned that she was feeling upset.When she arrived at work she was approached by a close friend who serves as the company’s gardener.
Read MoreIf you are a woman and have also had the dubious good luck of being pretty, sensual and charming, which is very much the same thing as being flypaper in a candy store, then you will have to wait for retirement age to enjoy the enormous pleasure, of looking around on your own terms, calmly and freely, without anyone looking at you.
Read MoreWhat can I say that doesn’t seem deaf or blind? What path can I take where I don’t feel like an invalid? I hesitate to affirm anything because I have a negligible access to information.On the other hand, I can say without a doubt, that all of the Cuban media pass on the same discourse with the same take.
Read MoreNext week I turn 75, making me what classic demographics classify a senior citizen. I should be worried, since I’m now knocking on the door of the life expectancy of Cuban women: 79 years. Or, to be more precise, making some quick calculations with basic arithmetic, I’m four years away from my farewell.
Read MoreI have never kept a diary. A slogan of my adolescence was: experience isn’t saved in words. It was my unconscious reaction against the scientific thinking that tries to record everything. By 34 you stop defending your ideas with such hardness and in its place prefer to build noisy supermarkets or peaceful nature reserves.
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