Cuban Stories on The Green Plantain

Since the last episode, The Green Plantain and yours truly visited Greece and Turkey on a tour that took our family to the ruins of Akrotiri in Santorini, Greece. Akrotiri is not a place of fantasy; i...

10 Sep 202421min

A reading of Chapter 17 - Florida Snorkeling from the book Now I Swim

13 Aug 202410min

Riverside Love - Part 2 concludes the love story of Marta Anisia Mouriño Faes and René Julio Riquelme Babé, written by their daughter, Marta Mayer.  Amor Riverside - Part2 2 - Concluye la historia de ...

30 Jul 202414min

I never tire of sharing Cuban love stories and how, despite often coinciding with the challenges of exile, they give us hope, a sense of continuity, and admiration.  This is the love story of Marta An...

16 Jul 202419min

Manuel Barrio-Costolla's trip to Cuba in 1914 from Santiago de Compostela, Spain, was fraught with uncertainty and danger. Despite his enthusiasm and determination to start a new life, the events of W...

2 Jul 202413min

Dunia and her husband usually stroll around the Manzanillo glorieta in the evenings, but not tonight when the rainy day gave way to more rain, mugginess, and a suffocating evening.   Dunia y su marido...

18 Jun 202413min

Vladimir, his father, and his siblings were linked to sugarcane and the sugarcane industry. Their farms were located in the municipality of Veroes, Venezuela, where many farms are dedicated to growing...

4 Jun 202414min

In this episode we explore Cuba’s folkloric poetry, the Punto Guajiro, through a few verses written by my cousin José Luis Rodríguez Martínez, who lives in Fomento, Cuba. Punto is the poetic voice of ...

30 Mai 202414min