1000 Pieces of Puerto Rico
Taking advantage of the “stay at home” order, I began to shuffle bins in an effort to “clean-up”. I pulled out our toy box filled with games and dusty puzzles…
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Límber Legend…A Tale of Two Stories
I grew up in New York and knew piraguas well, but I had never heard of limbers until I moved to Puerto Rico. Like an Italian ice with tropical flavors,…
Politics while sweeping….or is Wanda Vázquez Garced in a fog?
First of all, I am an uneducated voter. I follow issues but the who’s who in Puerto Rico politics is very confusing. The ballots have more people than items on…
Quarantine and Chocolate
Ok…....I roped you in with the chocolate and I promise I’ll get to it in a minute. I can’t stop wondering about something and it’s been driving me crazy. It’s…
September 1998 Hurricane Georges
1998… and events that change you…
As I sort through my plastic bins during quarantine, I found letters I had written to my family (and my mother sent back). Many sound like an episode of Green…
Oye….dame una Medalla. Quiero hacer pan.
Hacer pan... levadura, amasando, esperando....es un proceso que tarda. Esto es una receta fácil y rápida. Cuando todo el mundo está en casa y no hay pan…..grítale, “Oye, dame una…
Going Bananas
Here at TJ Ranch it’s either feast or famine…either we have too many bananas or none at all. I say this kind of facetiously because we always have bananas, but…
A club like no other….and a tribute to its founder
Lyndon Johnson was President of the United States and Luis Muñoz Marín Governor of Puerto Rico. I was fifteen and a high school student in New York City. Gas was…
I DON’T NEED A PASSPORT….and what’s my rep do anyway?
In November 2019 it was reported that CVS did not accept a Purdue student's Puerto Rico license as an ID to buy cold medicine. The employee said he needed a…
photo by juan zayas Nunez in article by Daniel Edgardo Adorno-Cruz
Aftershocks…in every sense of the word
When the government fails to provide for its people, then the people provide for themselves. After the earthquake in Puerto Rico roads to the south were bumper to bumper traffic…
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