March 19, 2018
It is interesting to think about what can connect two completely different places. I come from a small town in North Carolina that has a population of less than 20,000 people. Christianity, mostly of the Protestant variety, is the only religion…
March 16, 2018
If you ask most Cubans about racism, they will tell you it doesn’t exist in Cuba: “El color de piel, no me importa!” (Skin color doesn’t matter to me!). This was one of the goals of the revolution, after all, to abolish racism at every level, to…
March 15, 2018
Every Monday, I volunteer at a private Catholic K-12 school where I lead 50-minute conversation groups of 11-, 13-, and 15-year-olds to help them practice English with a native speaker. To many, I am the first flesh-and-blood American they’ve…
