Our real world has evolved. It's become something much different, and inadvertently about healthcare, and about what it means to have good health, and to be able to have good health.

We're a long way from the embargo ending. Look at what just happened with the rollback of Obama's Cuba policies. Two idiot congressmen convinced our idiot president to make it harder on Cubans on the island.

Offspring were a joy or a shame, but still the crown of their elders, nature's unpredictable creatures.

I tell people to have a relationship with their work every day, even if it means you just move a comma.

I've gotten to try on voices very different than my own, and I've become much more aware of structure than ever before. Also, you really weigh every word. There's no closer reading then when you read to translate.

Interestingly, in Cuba abortion is treated as lightly as getting a mole removed.

Both childbirth and abortion are medical procedures but neither is an illness, and sometimes they're both treated as such.