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

I feel possessive about stories I write in Spanish and so I usually end up translating those into English myself.

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.

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.

So much depends on our health, and we tend to take it so for granted.

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.