I wonder sometimes how I survived my childhood. Seriously.

When I was very young, my family spent the summers at Varadero Beach. The entire summer. (I know. So cool, right?) You see, it was …

I close my eyes and take one bite and suddenly I am unstuck in time …
I’m in the heart of the city, which means I get to enjoy something amazing from one of the …

Dear Comadre,
I am an American-born Latina married to an American man. I hold nothing back, he holds everything back. After nearly 20 years of marriage, I am a little cansada of asking him how he …

The concept of home, of where and what home really is, has been on my mind a lot in these last few days.
As I have worked with neighbors and friends to help repair our community …

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I have four children. (Well, technically, two are adults and two are teenagers, but that’s not important right now.)
All four, even though they were born here …

I tried to explain the following to an American friend, who kind of stared and blinked at me as I shared the following. You Latinas out there…..Can you back me up on this?
Madrina is the …

I used to visit my parents at least once a week.
My dad was confined to a wheelchair and in his late 80′s, but his brain was sharp as ever.

We would sit at their kitchen table …

I got a kick out of this video of Guy Fieri – of the Food Network show, Diners, Drive-ins and Dives. He was in Miami looking for a great “mofongo.” I like how he says …

On New Year’s Eve, at the stroke of midnight, we Cubans are BUSY.

When the clock strikes 12 we:

Quickly eat 12 grapes – one for each month of the past year.
Wash these down with sparkling cider …

By Tere
They had been in this country a mere two months, and here they were, seeing first-hand how America was the land of plenty.
Those two months, they must have been so overwhelming. A family of …