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The real Bizarre in Cuba
I was totally OK with watching Andrew Zimmern of the Travel Channel enjoy the fruit that is Cuba on his new series, Bizarre World, and share it with the world. I was happy to get another glimpse at...
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Average and Boring Latina in America
Have you watched CNN’s Latino in America? What did you think? I watched it, and along with some other big mouths on the bilingual webosphere, I feel it focused too narrowly on Latinos in dire...
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Play with your Flan, an online adventure
One of the most beautiful sentences in the English language: “It is now safe to turn on your electronic and hand-held devices.” iPod on the plane! iPod for La Nena, actually — an expert flier who...
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Some women inspire poetry, music, novelas. Me? Read on.
Some women inspire poetry, music, the construction of temples. War, even. Me? I inspire the creation of … headphones. And, not even totally me. My kid and her cabeza. I just happened to be there. See...
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Bilingual Music Playlist…with a dash of Freestyle and Celia.
When la Nena and I are in the car together, the radio is usually stuck on the XM Kid’s Place Live Channel. I like the station. They play Indie kid songs and rarely do any of the songs make me want to...
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Review: Slow Death by Rubber Duck
In my circle of Latin friends and family, I have been mocked a little for my crunchiness: using a Midwife, insisting on breastfeeding despite less-than-perfect circumstances and even our use of cloth...
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Review and Giveaway: René Has Two Last Names
Sometime in the early ’90s, when Mexicans and other Latin Americans began to flood into Nashville, a news editor asked me this question: “What’s this guy’s real last name?” I told him both were the...
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Cultural Symbols and Me
Mojito in a Bag, $1.99! I am not sure why I am surprised to find Spanish language goods in local stores. Maybe because when I was growing up, the Spanish seemed insulated to the Miami and North Jersey...
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We get into the car. It’s about 100 degrees and humid. Maria says: “Ay, carajo, it’s hot!” Guat? And then, I realize. We’ve been listening to the soundtrack from the musical, In the Heights — love and...
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I Know Queens, so Keep Your Princess
I am Queen. (2007) Sometimes, I have nothing to say, which is very un-Cuban. Sometimes, I force myself to say nothing, which is very American. I have been fighting with the two sides of my brain:...
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