Working in the Field

When people see a building with “seniors” in the title they often tend to think of a depressing place – a “warehouse where people wait to die” (a quote from a resident of her former “life”.) This is scandalous and I have spent the last 14 years changing...

Finding Cubanized Community

  We left the center of Havana and Old Havana with their grand buildings (some of them in disrepair) and went to an outlying neighborhood that was obviously quite poor.     We navigated around the potholes and cracks on streets with few sidewalks to arrive at a...

Havana con sentida

The old woman picked her way down the cobblestoned street, one more day in a life of hard work written large on her body. Suddenly the sounds of evening in Havana were shattered by the music of klaxon horns heralding the approach of a procession of vividly colored old...