instant documentaries

  • Take Me to Cuba

    By Richard C. Even with tourism to Cuba increasing and relations warming, my bank account says I’ll still be getting my taste of Cuban food, fiction, and history the vicarious way. My favorite lately is the instant documentary – Spanish or English anytime, right!? After that it’s fiction. Crime fiction. In Havana Blue, it’s a troubled past catching up to… Continue reading

  • Immigration from the Tops of Trains

    By Richard C. Enrique’s Journey By Sonia Nazario I remember so vividly the beginning of Moby Dick when Ishmael says “…whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my soul… then, I account it high time to get to sea as soon as I can.” The full quote is truly golden. Like Ishmael, whenever I… Continue reading