Editor’s Note: This is the second of five essays celebrating Abuela’s during Mother’s Day week 2011 on the Tiki Tiki. To read the other essays, visit the intro essay.

by Alexandra Rosas Schultze
De la Sierra Morena
Cielito …

Editor’s Note: This is the first of five essays celebrating Abuela’s during Mother’s Day week 2011 on the Tiki Tiki. To read the other essays, visit the intro essay.

By Issa M. Mas
For a long time, …

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Celebrating Abuelas
A few years ago, I learned a science fact …

Craving Culture
It surprises people to learn my company, Los Pollitos Dicen, was founded in Nashville, TN.
Same crazy surprise face when they learn the Tiki Tiki is based here too — in the Buckle of the …

 
By Lucia Lopez Plunkett
Oh no, he didn’t. Este fregado! What did he say? I’m being… what? Hmmm, am I really? I’m going to call my Comadre. She’ll tell me.
Am I the only one who does …

 
When I was little, I was not allowed to walk on the cold terrazo floor for maternal fear I would cojer un frio and horrible things would happen to my private parts. There’s a word …

By Alexandra
I am a first generation American.
What does that mean to you?
If you are an American, you hear, “New to this country.” But, to the child of immigrant parents, you know what this statement truly …

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A friend recently told me her mother and she were cooking together when the elder turned to the younger — a married mother of two — and …

By Vanessa Libertad Garcia
Being Cuban. Being Woman. Being Lesbian. These are all concrete identifiable experiences for me that melt into a puddle of vagueness whenever I try to grab them and hand …

By Laura Feo-Fernandez
I always think my Spanish is pretty decent until I’m faced with the task of composing an e-mail to my Cuban suegra.
I never really know what to say because there’s rarely anything new …