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 [...]

Jackson Browne’s new song is called Going Down to Cuba. It starts about 20 minutes in on this video. Tell me what you think. To me, it’s fantasy, idealism and stereotype. And boring too. 

The Bacardi rum company has a rich Cuban history that includes hard-scrabble beginnings, fighting for independence, supporting the Bearded Dictator and being duped by the now-retired Bearded Dictator.   A new book, Bacardi and the Long Fight for Cuba, written by NPR reporter Tom Gjelten, details that history for those of us who only know [...]

I don’t write too much about Maria’s nut allergy. While it is at the front of my brain daily, we’ve learned to accept it as the way of our life. But with school starting, we’ve been talking allergies a lot with new friends.  I share a little in this week’s Parenting.com post why the parents [...]

This just made me happy…The Backyardigans dancing to Banda Dominguera. (Just don’t click on this users other videos…)

Inspired by a business story in USA Today, I logged into Twitter a few weeks ago.My husband always has said that I have no unspoken thought, so this constant vomitation of the inane and ridiculous would be perfect for me. And, if it sells a few t-shirts, well there you go. I felt, and still [...]

Maria was quite upset Friday. She wanted to know why no one came to my birthday party. I told her that sometimes grown-ups don’t have birthday parties. She was none too pleased to learn this. The best present was this note from my mom: “Hija, no importa los años que cumples, yo revivo el dia [...]

Ed. note: If you are Carrie’s Mami, please close your browser now. Go here or here or here, instead. Gracias. A friend sent a note yesterday that I need not dread tomorrow’s 41st birthday. It is, after all, the 20th anniversary of my 21st birthday. While it would be lovely to still be that fresher, [...]

Fitness magazine Daisy Fuentes, beautiful and talented Cubanita, is 41 and on the cover of Fitness magazine this coming month. I, dear reader, another beautiful and talented Cubanita, turn 41 in a few days. Oh yes, I do. Good genetics have offered me a wrinkle-free face, so far, and many years of therapy have made [...]

We were at the pool yesterday when I looked to my right and saw three young mothers who could have been triplets. Same short bobs, pulled back into tiny pony tails. Same brown sunglasses. Same cute little noses, lean bodies. I elbowed my friend. “Mira! They’re like triplets.” Wow, she said. I couldn’t stop staring. [...]