When I was a kid, the smell of platanos fritos (fried plantains) told me it was breakfast time. Today in the morning as I made my own (not quite as tasty as the ones my mother makes), I thought about those breakfasts a …

My sister would play Mambo No. 5 to cheer me up. She would hug my body and then pull me to a sitting position. Hot oatmeal waited for me in a bowl. I needed more than one pillow to keep the sitting position. After we…

The memory was a bit hazy at first, but then came into focus. It was a road, trees lined up on both sides. I was four years old. My mother told the bus driver to stop by an empty barn. I got off the bus with my mom. …

There is a moment in the movie Amelie when our heroine is able to give a box of mementos to a man who had forgotten he had left that box behind and finds that, years later, that box holds a treasure and that treasure is …

Esto lo escribi anoche, pero lo he puesto aca para que tenga su propia casa. Hoy en la noche mientras E trabaja en la computadora yo me he puesto a pensar en cuando era niña. Creo que es porque el otoño ya empezó y el fr…