While a family could tour the entire island of Puerto Rico in just a couple of days, we recommend slowing down and taking in La isla one little corner at a time. The hometown of reggaeton, salsa and the mystic Tahino natives is so diverse and rich, and offers so much amazing ecological and cultural […]
The happy coincidence that took me, a curious Latina and adopted New Yorker, to visit Wyoming recently was the convincing tone of a professor at Central Wyoming College. While visiting Manhattan, he said New York was the mind of America and insisted that Wyoming was the heart and I needed to see it. Three weeks […]
For immigrants, living in the U.S. is a precious opportunity to learn about new cultures and their traditions. Beyond the struggle to adapt to a new language or certain values in the American culture, this is a welcoming country, a “melting pot” that offers a space to share traditions from our places of origin and […]
On a Saturday morning, Claudia Duncan wakes up at 5:30am, makes coffee, turns on the radio, and starts pushing paper. For many of us, that may sound like a mundane start to the day. But for Duncan, by manipulating paper—whether it’s an elegantly-bound journal or a simple invoice—she’s assembling a dream. Duncan is the founder […]
For more than 13 years, Sabrina Vourvoulias has been tirelessly covering immigration issues from every possible genre and angle. She started as a journalist tracking migrant workers in upstate New York. Now she is the managing editor of Al día newspaper in Pennsylvania and recently wrote Ink, her first novel. She also is the blogger […]
The need to tell stories is by no means the sole purview of women. But women have a capacity to share their stories with other women, in ways that are both universal and unique. There is a magical quality to that space where fears, joys, achievements, families, careers and love take flight together in a […]