Marta here: Welcome to my ongoing celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month: Cuban-Style with a series of stories about Cuban American families and how they ended up here in the U.S.: Cuando Sali de Cuba, stories of courage and hope. Today I want to introduce you to Gracie and her family, who left Cuba as part of the Mariel Boatlift in ...
Archives for October 3, 2011
Fifth Blogoversary Cool Stuff Winners
I have to tell you that my family has been lovely and so supportive as I've been talking non-stop about how cool it is that I've been blogging for 5 years. I read your awesome comments out loud as they would come in and the fam listened attentively. It could also be that I made a Killer Arroz con Pollo and I had a captive audience, ...