Diaries – Page 2 – Havana Times

The Uncertainties of Life in Cuba

There comes an age when we begin making plans. Not necessarily big ones. Sometimes it is enough to decide what we will do on Saturday.

When someone asks my wife and I whether we want to have another child, this time here in Brazil, the short answer is “yes, but no.”

We long for the past, looking back at it from afar like a postcard of happier times. Now we don’t even know what to call this precarious existence.

I don’t remember exactly when my passion for movies began, but it was when I was quite young.

I asked a friend how she manages to give herself injections when she has a migraine attack. I need to learn how to inject myself.

There are things you never imagined you would have to buy in US dollars, such as a cylinder of cooking gas.

The first time I heard that Kelly Kirschner was running for the US Congress, it struck me as odd.

Cuba is a technologically backward country. Of the 43 years I spent there, for the first 36 I knew no form of money other than coins and banknotes.

I don’t remember feeling as much joy when I bought my liquefied-gas stove as I do with this charcoal one, which I just bought….

They are not always old buildings or mansions that once belonged to wealthy families. Sometimes they are much more modest spaces.