By Frances O’Cherony Archer
La temporada hasn’t been easy this summer. I’m still a Chicago Cubs fan, haven’t lost my eternal optimism, but this is the first baseball season my father , Domingo O’Cherony, won’t …

By Rubén González
This may be wishful thinking, but I see the following anecdote as a sign of how deeply rooted Spanish is in my son Gabriel’s brain:
One recent night, after putting him to bed, I …

My family of origin consisted of Papi, Mami and six of us kids. I was am the youngest of this brood.
Here I am celebrating my 4th birthday. New dress, clean curls, birthday cake and a …

As far back as I can remember I have kept a journal or a diary of some sort. In the years before blogging, I would faithfully recap the mundane events of my uneventful life, my …

I drive around my suburban neighborhood in a minivan. 
It’s actually a KIA Sedona. It’s not trendy. It’s not cutesy. It’s just a utilitarian minivan.
But, I like it. A lot.
We just call it The KIA. …

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by Tessa Lemos

Summertime means an abundance of fresh fruits and vegetables from Dad’s garden and cool refreshing foods and drink.  It also is a time that …

I don’t know how many posts I’ve started with….“I have my mom for the weekend,” but I know there are many.
My mom, Luz, is in good health. She doesn’t suffer from any disease other than …

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Thanks to all of you who have been reading along in our archives this week as we celebrated a year of Tiki Tiki. We’re …

Happy Saturday…You don’t usually hear from us on the weekends, but we’ve got a lot of Birthday Wishes sent in and they’re pretty awesome.
Here are two videos from Adrian, hijo de Dariela of Mami Talks. …

I love writing essays for the habla habla. It gives me a chance to tell the cuentos I love to tell about my loving and loco Cuban family, not to mention, what it is like …