My mother, Norma, loves telling me the story of how my grandmother saved my aunt’s life one night in 1942 by simply calling her name. As a…
[caption id="attachment_88773" align="alignright" width="450"] Natasha Gordon-Chipembere/The Tico Times[/caption] I love being able to look back on memories of first encounters and document how my perceptions changed with…
I have always wanted to write a travel blog or even a book about my observations in the countless airports I have encountered over the years on…
In January 2013, I was given a grant to conduct research in the Costa Rican National Archives on the vague topic of slavery in colonial Costa Rica.…
See also: Claiming my Afro-Latinidad On two separate occasions over the last year, I have been asked for information about what life may have been like in…
I was born in Brooklyn, New York several moons ago to a Costa Rican mom, newly immigrated, and a Panamanian dad who were sorting their way through…
Recently, on a Skype call to my Tica mother in Brooklyn, New York, I was happily surprised to hear a new story about her childhood in Puerto…
