I might as well admit it, the words "presidential election" cause me to fantasize about moving to a desert island where all the mind-numbing nonsense that passes for campaigning ...

Entire wars have been fought over it, British lords beheaded, Spanish mystics incarcerated, principalities set on fire, and now it travels the internet in search of friendships to destroy. It is religion. And ...

If you imagine God as a parent, what kind of parent do you imagine? You imagine your parent. My God may be distant and uninvolved, always on business trips and only looking my way when I ...

Mad as hell…but without hope There's a famous scene from the movie Network where newsman Howard Beale who is fed up ...

When it comes to the subject of love everybody is an expert. Your best friend tells you, "Face it he's not worth it." You read magazine articles about "how to get the most satisfaction ...

You know the routine pretty well. Getting ready for Thanksgiving means much planning, shopping for a lot of food, and with me there was the over-achieving ...

My friends tell me that in their youth there was a pretty radical rivalry between Catholic school kids and public school kids in "CCD." I'll take their word for it, because Latino kids like me were ...

When I was about ten years old growing up in Havana, my friends and I made an awesome discovery. ...

What do a vintage Warner Brothers cartoon, a classic war movie, and a caution about how we see ourselves have to do with one another? They are my way of trying to untangle the flag-waving ...

There's a favorite story in my family that goes something like this… My father-in-law, a Frenchman, had just arrived in Latin America. He made his way to the government offices in the capital to get his ...