I am half-dressed and staring at myself in the mirror. Husband walks past me toward the closet. We’re going out for the evening. “What is the matter?” he asks. “I’m thinking,” I say. “Must be bad.” “This,” I say, walking toward him and pointing to the top of my head. “is what I am thinking […]

I’ve been thinking for a while now about what telenovela title I would give my life. This is the kind of caca I think about when I can’t sleep, or when I am doodling in my notebook, and you know, when I am avoiding work and mopping. Since I have rounded up a few new […]

A friend told me video blogging is the gway to goh in 2009 when ju want tu make a de poin’. Forgive the length. Cubans are long-winded. I am working on uploading some excerpts.

We watched HBO’s Habla Mas last night and this particular interview several times. I laughed so hard, I cried. Enjoy.

Warning, rant ahead… The city of Nashville will spend $350,000 to $500,000 to hold a special election in January. The issue: Making sure that Nashville business is done in English only. Thing is, English already is the official language of Nashville. And so, the protectionist message is, in my opinion, just a P.S. to newcomers […]

The city where country music stars roam, where macaroni and cheese is a vegetable and where only tourists wear cowboy hats is in the spotlight today. If you watch the presidential debate previews tonight look for images of my adopted hometown — some will be right on, some will be hokey — and look for […]

Jackson Browne’s new song is called Going Down to Cuba. It starts about 20 minutes in on this video. Tell me what you think. To me, it’s fantasy, idealism and stereotype. And boring too.

The Bacardi rum company has a rich Cuban history that includes hard-scrabble beginnings, fighting for independence, supporting the Bearded Dictator and being duped by the now-retired Bearded Dictator. A new book, Bacardi and the Long Fight for Cuba, written by NPR reporter Tom Gjelten, details that history for those of us who only know […]

I don’t write too much about Maria’s nut allergy. While it is at the front of my brain daily, we’ve learned to accept it as the way of our life. But with school starting, we’ve been talking allergies a lot with new friends. I share a little in this week’s Parenting.com post why the parents […]

This just made me happy…The Backyardigans dancing to Banda Dominguera. (Just don’t click on this users other videos…)