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Are you sick of bad news? Fake news? Sad news? It’s Friday (somewhere) so it’s happy hour time. Take a break! Here is a collection of awesome stuff. Bill Gates shares five summer reads “I’ve read some terrific books lately. When I pulled together this list of five that you might enjoy this summer, I …
Wherever people go, they carry their cultural beliefs and traditions. And their gods. And gods emerge and are forgotten and are rediscovered and reshaped. The first inhabitants of North America migrated from Siberia at least 15,000 years ago. Many gods arrived and emerged between then and the settlement of Europeans. Waves of immigrants from all …
Once the wedding was over, we settled into enjoying South Florida. We’ve visited Calle Ocho, the cultural and political centre for Miami’s Cuban community. Here we’ve eaten delicious Cuban food, purchased Panama hats and domino sets, and my husband Theo and his best mate enjoyed a cigar. We went to Miami Beach and dined at …
We’re married! The wedding was on Saturday, 24th of February. It was a beautiful day. I’m sure I’ll have a lot to say about it as time goes on, but here are some immediate thoughts. Planning Although I wanted more than a courthouse ceremony, I knew I wanted a simple and small wedding. I see …
In the 1930s, Little Havana was a lower-middle-class Southern and Jewish neighborhood. Following the Cuban Revolution, there was a vast influx of Cuban immigrants which settled here and “Little Havana” emerged. By 1970, the neighborhood was more than 85% Cuban. Today, it’s more diverse and Cubans now make up about 58% of the Hispanic community. The …
I’m going home for a little while. Wish me a bon voyage. My father tells a story: when I was a little girl, I got mad because I wanted to do something that my parents would not permit. In my anger, I said to my father that I couldn’t wait to grow up and leave …