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Jun.22.2011 - 11:01 am
Reinaldo Arenas
During my college days my roommate Mayra Suarez, whose family immigrated from Cuba, would bring back her grandmother's delicious black bean and rice, fried plantain bananas and...
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Jun.11.2011 - 11:48 pm
Li Po, painted by the artist Liang Kai (13th C) My stepmother, a spunky woman, lived well into her late eighties.  During the last years of her life she complained about her...
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Jun.08.2011 - 5:35 pm
Xu Zhimo The vast resource of foreign films and documentaries from Netflix have been both educational and entertaining for me.  I am especially drawn to the ones on artists and...
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Jun.07.2011 - 4:39 pm
Friends and family puzzled over the announcement that I have written a memoir.  "I thought memoirs are written by people who have already lived a life."---was the...
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