Either Clothes or Food – You Choose
“Do you want to eat, or do you want to buy the jeans?” I overheard a woman ask her teenage son. What a difficult choice!
Read More“Do you want to eat, or do you want to buy the jeans?” I overheard a woman ask her teenage son. What a difficult choice!
Read MoreLately, I’m feeling nostalgia for so many things. Almost any time from the past seems better to me than now.
Read MoreThere was a knock at the door, I opened it, and was surprised to see a young man with a yellow postal package.
Read MoreA friend was telling me she felt like she was in an involuntary obstacle race: “Every day, the bar I have to jump gets higher!”
Read MoreWhen I see houses in danger of collapse, I remember Juan Carlos, a friend who is no longer in Cuba.
Read MoreI often find myself remembering my bicycle, and how it shrunk the distances in Alamar, the community east of Havana where I still live.
Read MoreIn Cuba of the 1970s, there were no videocassette recorders, computers, or recording devices… Each moment was irreversible, like in life.
Read MoreI don’t know why I remember that trip to Varadero in 2016 so much. It wasn’t really for pleasure; we were just going to pick up a tablet…
Read MoreCuba is becoming more like a big airport. Maybe that’s not a bad thing. Maybe it’s a special land to teach us that everything is fleeting.
Read MoreWhen people ask me why I don’t write articles anymore, I can only answer: because writing about Cuba is a devastating exercise.
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