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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 …

Essays and blog posts by Latinas living la vida rica in the United States.

ShareEditor’s note: My mother and aunt left Cuba in 1957 when they were 14 and 11. The guerrillas were in the hills in Oriente Province when my family left. My mom and aunt returned to …

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She was twenty-five when she got married.
She was twenty-six when she became a mother.
She was forty-one when she gave birth to me, the youngest of her six children.
She was forty-seven when she found …

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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 …

ShareI love being a Latina. I love our culture and all that comes with it. But, there is this thing in the Latino culture where your parents, or other relatives, will often say “terms of …

ShareI 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 …

ShareI told the trainer our 3-month-old puppy, Buddy, was biting at my pants legs and hands way too much. I told her he got out of control a little too often and was starting to …

ShareI 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 …

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Lent is a period of reflection, sacrifice and getting closer to God. Like all other seasons, food is part of the mix. Over the years, to me, it has meant …