I am fully aware that my whole family can eventually reach this blog and read whatever I have to say regarding them, regarding my life, regarding … whatever. I am not and will not be apologetic about what I write in here, even though it may wound sensitivities. If I choose to write what I [...]
A veces trato de verle el sentido a la forma en que esta familia se ha desbandado. Mi papá y Martha hace ya más de 4 años están viviendo fuera de la isla: se fueron a buscar una mejor vida, cosa que todavía nos cuestionamos: “hasta qué punto lo habrán logrado?” … porque si nos [...]
The act of adapting to a new set of cirumstances. Sometimes it takes a negative toll, it sucks our creative energy and our happiness away. Re-adapting can tint the world in a gray cast: it all becomes muddled shadows under sickly yellow streetlamps. … but sometimes it becomes a brightening filter: the grass starts looking [...]
Simply put: Barack Hussein Obama won the presidency of the United States. It’s a victory for the Democratic Party, indeed. It’s a victory for the African-Americans as a minority demographic, also. It’s a victory for common sense, peace, hope…
It’s also much more than a win. What I see in the expressions of the people captured by the cameras of the press is not simple glee for having won this round.