• If I like a song, I listen to it until I’m bored. If I like a book, I read it until I’m exhausted. Those who know me know that I can eat industrial quantities of chocolate ice cream. If I

  • In my house, bad words were simply not used. If my father let one slip by accident, my mother quickly transformed it into something else. That’s why there were never “assholes,” only ̶

  • I am a Taurus, plus I have a bit of Swiss in me, thus, I adore harmony. I arrange my house like a painter distributes space in a canvas. Everything is well placed and keeping some distance. The mess i

  • When I turned 4 years old, my mother had a brilliant idea of leaving me in a library while she went to the university at night, after working all day.

  • An "Habanera" by birth, Cuban by conviction, hopelessly Caribbean. Swiss, Italian, and Spanish by heritage. American by choice. Very happy, and way too prone to nostalgia. An obsessive reader and a

  • In Havana, in a neighborhood called La Víbora, there was a house from the turn of the century. It once had dance floors, secret rooms, spiral staircases, cathedral ceilings with tile borders, an entra

  • It all began in my childhood. My grandmother told me that the thing that hangs between men’s legs was called a colilla (cigarette butt). So I always believed that men went to the bathroom with a