Mar 15, 2026
Goodbye, Ricky Café
A farewell to a Miami café that held fragments of friendship, memory, and ordinary ritual.
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Countries: <span>Havana</span>
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Jan 15, 2026
Dark Night, Whirlpools, and the Limits of Consolation
A meditation after Hafez on grief, uncertainty, and the limits of easy consolation.
Aug 15, 2025
The First Cuban Restaurant in Miami, with the Soul of 1960s Havana
A Miami food memory that connects Cuban exile, restaurants, nostalgia, and the soul of Havana.
Jun 15, 2025
Mangroves and Memory: Hidden Currents Between Pine Island and Cuba
A coastal field note tracing mangroves, memory, Pine Island, Cuba, and the quiet routes between places.
Jan 15, 2025
Walker Evans and My Luck with Barbers
A reflection moving from Walker Evans to barbers, photography, human dignity, and fortunate encounters.
Aug 15, 2024
Goodbye Cuba and the Memories
A multilingual farewell to Cuba, friendship, memory, and the emotional tattoo left by Havana.
Mar 15, 2024
SECOND DAY OF NOWRUZ HAPPY DAYS
I enjoyed very much the first day of Nowruz, sending and receiving greetings and exchanging photographs and seeing many a haft sin tables and to see the happy faces of…
Mar 15, 2024
A WONDERFUL NOWRUZ TO ALL FRIENDS AND LOVERS
A WONDERFUL NOWRUZ TO ALL MY FRIENDS WHEREVER YOU ARE, WHETHER YOU ARE IRANIAN OR NOT.. SPRING IS BEING PROMISED BY UNCLE PIRUZ All lovers of Iranian cinema would be…
Feb 15, 2024
A LAMENT FOR MY DEAR ISLAND CUBA
This morning, I received an article from Mexico City that was published in the Spanish newspaper El Pais on February 18, 2024. As I read it, tears welled up in…
Dec 15, 2023
I REMEMBER CACHAITO
Each time we coincided in Havana, i would trudge up the stairs to his flat not far from Hotel Nacional in Vedado. He was always pleasant and welcoming and would…
Jul 15, 2023
I NEVER THOUGHT I WOULD CRY FOR YOU, CARLOS ALBERTO!
I never thought I would cry for you, Carlos Alberto! I am sitting in my room, at a seaside village in Bretagne in the West of France, not that far…
Jun 15, 2023
COINCIDENCES ARE NOT COINCIDENCES .. WE ARE NOT SMART ENOUGH TO UNDERSTAND THEM
A voyage of too many coincidences Coincidences do not exist, it shows our inability to understand it A short visit to Buenos Aires Miami to Panama to Montevideo, the awful…