A friend told me video blogging is the gway to goh in 2009 when ju want tu make a de poin’. Forgive the length. Cubans are long-winded. I am working on uploading some excerpts.

Kurdish children and me. Belmont neighborhood, Nashville. 1992 Nashville will vote Jan. 22 on whether to create an English-Only Metro government. Nothing will convince me that this is about uniting our city or saving money. No winning argument has been offered and nothing but anecdote and race-baiting has been delivered. This is pure ugly and […]

Before we get started: Vote “No” and “No” on the English-Only Nashville charter amendment Jan. 22. Early voting is going on now. Go vote at the Howard Office School Building. Nashville Celebration of Cultures. Fall, 2006 Now… A Miami bumper sticker two decades ago asked the last American leaving Miami to please bring the flag. […]

If you are not from Nashville — and my stats tell me the grand majority of you are not — then I need to beg your forgiveness in advance. I will begin lobbing angry barbs in this space at those who are promoting a ridiculous and costly and xenophobic amendment they call “English First.” Everybody […]

The city where country music stars roam, where macaroni and cheese is a vegetable and where only tourists wear cowboy hats is in the spotlight today. If you watch the presidential debate previews tonight look for images of my adopted hometown — some will be right on, some will be hokey — and look for […]

A while back, I promised no politics on this site, but a news story from yesterday hit me as a bit ironic and, well, here goes: I wrote about the set-back in teaching La Maria to speak Spanish while a Senator from my state was proposing an English-only at work bill. I wrote him a […]