Genetically, I only am half-Cuban. Let me tell you how it shows: Start the Latin music and
my bottom and waist wiggle. All on their own. Then look at my feet. They likely are not
doing the …

So, remember how much fun the Dichos and palabras post was? Well, I got all inspired and did a video of some dichos I particularly liked. They’re about bacalao and cuchillos and culitos — colorful …

I did not have a Quinceañera. Pity me not. I was a reluctant queen then. Today, at 40-something, I am not. If I had it to do again, I would emerge from a giant, lighted …

My aunt was talking to my nephew — a 19-year-old who just moved to Miami from Havana — about accents. The fast talk of the Cuban, the elegant Venezuelan, the sing-song of Mexico. To make …

So remember when I wrote that one of the things I love about my telenovelas is that I can recognize some of my seres queridos in the crazy characters?
It turns out, I have a …

My poor mother.
She has had to deal with me as her daughter — cranky, bossy, hard-headed. And, today I am posting a video about her. One day, it will be a novel, for sure, but today …

Carrie’s Tia — the Cuban Marilyn Monroe — insists her mother invented cappucchino

Tiki Tiki…it is noise, mucho habla habla, energy…and the sound of a Latin heartbeat. Listen.