CSI: Is that a Hispanic on the Morgue Table?
On an episode of CSI NY (Crime Scene Investigation), this past season, there was a murdered male whose body parts were left scattered throughout the four corners of Hell’s Kitchen (Episode: […]
Hurricane Isaac Still Blocking My Path Home-Leading me to Reflect on Caribbean Travels
I have a funny relationship with the Caribbean. My family is from there. I go there for work often. I love love love the stews (goat stew, poll guisado, oxtail stew) and […]
Road Trip Through Curacao: Where Everybody Knows my Name…Aint Nanny
Wow! In Curacao I am a mommy. As a brown mother of a white baby in the United States, I often get mistaken for being the nanny. Such a statement may sound […]
Keratin, Flat Irons and Hair Politics: A Latina Traveling Curacao
This morning, after a long travel day yesterday that was followed by pool time, I definitely had to “do” my hair: Wash, blow dry, flat iron. At the end of this modern-day […]
Sunbathing in Curacao Dreaming of the Blended Latino Family
Before I visited Curacao, I watched a tourism video that extolled the virtue of all things curacao: its history, its current economic standing and position in the Caribbean, its high literacy rates […]
Tonight I dream of New Orleans (“N’awlins”)
The second I landed for the first time there was no denying it: I was in love with New Orleans. It was a bit grimy, yet charming, sad but vibrant and somehow […]
