The People Embargo and Estrangement

A little story on family estrangement. Sometime ago, a college bound son left home to go to the U. of Hawaii. That event caused enough stress all the way around to last an entire lifetime; and then the lost black sheep drops out of college, returns home, gets married and comes up with even more […]

A Habana Story

And on the second day of my old Havana travels visit.. . . I walk roughly five miles to a section in old Havana, across the malecon but, nearer to the port and cruise ship terminal. I duck into the first shelter available, a restaurant; literally missing a huge down pour by seconds. The small […]

The Cubano Lechon in 2021

Before the Trump administration succeeded in destroying Obamas policy of more open relations with Cuba, about 20,000 Americans visited legally in 2007, followed by about 1.5 million more a decade later. “We will enforce the ban on tourism. We will enforce the embargo.” – Trump. Yet in September 2016, when Trump was the Republican presidential […]

Memories of Loma de la Cruz, Holguin Cuba

And on a second visit to Cuba we land in the province of Holguin; I’m armed this time with cousins, whom years ago experienced first hand the island’s rise of communism, as young children. Their father, my Uncle died of dementia on the Florida mainland. Thankfully, he enjoyed many fruitful years of life, watching his […]