Survey Greetings, community. The illustrator of my book, “Just a Bit of Chaos,” has just sent me some possible cover images, and since I found all of them interesting I need your help. Survey. Vote.

A category 5 hurricane is heading straight for my home. Jamaica, Haiti and Cuba endangered. Hurricane Melissa is a huge threat for Cuba.

Today I visited the Plaza de San Francisco in Old Havana. It's a place famous for many things; I remember it used to be called "the pigeon square" (though this time, I didn't see many pigeons).

Coffee at Bigote Gato, a place with a tremendous history whose existence I was unaware of. After finishing an errand in Old Havana, we got a craving for coffee. Since we were newly made friends (an interesting

Jesús del Monte: A Piece of Havana's History, Far from the Tourist Trail/ Jesús del Monte: un pedazo de Historia habanera lejos del foco turístico (ENG/ESP) From my Havana apartment, two landmarks are

When the Global Cat Distribution System does its thing 🐾 Hello, community friends! 👋 Today I'm here to introduce you to my two babies: KP3 (the older one) and Odysseus (the younger one). Both are rescues.

Today I'm going to review a book that I can only describe as essential but difficult. Not because it's bad, quite the opposite, nor because it's complex (which it is, but not in the way one might imagine),

The other day, I was in the city of Las Tunas for a literary event and I got to visit this café with such an interesting theme again. Let me introduce you to Hogwarts, a tiny Harry Potter-themed space

Havana's Chinatown was the largest in Latin America and came to be considered the second most important in the world after San Francisco's (USA). It is located very close to the Capitol, right in the heart

On Wednesday, leaving a meeting at my third job, I ran into my friend Milho, another writer. We decided to have a coffee, which turned into lunch, and today I'll tell you more about the place. It's a

Walking down Calle G in Vedado, a sign immediately caught my attention. The café is called “Cafecito and Gossip.” And of course, I had to go in and bring you, just as the name suggests, the gossip. It's

One of the first things any Cuban child learns is that the Apostle, the National Hero, José Martí, was born on January 28, 1853, in a humble little house on Paula Street, in Havana. Not long ago, I had

Today, I bring you a fascinating book, a cult classic of science fiction, winner of a Hugo Award, full of literary references and intertextuality of all kinds. We're talking about Hyperion, by Dan Simmons.

I confess I went to this place with full intention. City walls are one of those structures one directly associates with specific eras. Santiago de Cuba, my city, never had one (that I know of). But it

Walking through Old Havana, I ended up, almost by accident, at an iconic site for Cuban culture. Famous for giving its name to the crowning novel of 19th-century Cuba and one of the most important in Latin

Imagine walking under the Caribbean sun of La Cabaña in Havana, Cuba, and suddenly discovering a medieval fair. It's not a movie set or a time machine: it's a vibrant fragment of the Middle Ages, recreated

I'm not sure this is the opinion you all want to read, but the fourth season of Love, Death and Robots is pretty bad. We here are die-hard fans of this series – it's rare for me to get hooked on a show,

Hoy es mi cumpleaños. No cualquiera: cumplo 30. Creo que no conozco una sola mujer que vea esta cifra sin algún tipo de reacción. En Cuba, significa que entras a los "ta": esa terminación de

Image: generated using Openart.ai In my last post, I defined Mass Extinctions (MEs) and mentioned there have been five—so far. Let’s cut to the chase, as the dermatologist said. Here’s a timeline to keep

Cuando te fuiste no se oyó más ópera en la casa. En tu sillón, ahora vacío, nadie se atrevía a sentarse. Te guardábamos el lugar, como si hubieras ido un momento a la esquina, aunque en los últimos años