I'm never afraid of research. I relish it!.

Offspring were a joy or a shame, but still the crown of their elders, nature's unpredictable creatures..

I've gotten to try on voices very different than my own, and I've become much more aware of structure than ever before. Also, you really weigh every ….

We're a long way from the embargo ending. Look at what just happened with the rollback of Obama's Cuba policies. Two idiot congressmen convinced our ….

Each genre has its own process. I'm very intuitive about poetry. I usually write first and second drafts out by hand. The other end of the spectrum i….

Our real world has evolved. It's become something much different, and inadvertently about healthcare, and about what it means to have good health, an….

In journalism, if there's a hole in your story you figure out a way around it because you've got a 4 p.m. deadline. It's a neat skill to have but it'….

This is going to sound nuts but it took me forever to figure out why I'd stopped writing poetry - I mean, I went about a decade where I wrote very li….

Journalism is very much public writing, writing with an audience in mind, writing for publication, and frequently writing quickly. And I know that wh….

Both childbirth and abortion are medical procedures but neither is an illness, and sometimes they're both treated as such..

I tell people to have a relationship with their work every day, even if it means you just move a comma..

Interestingly, in Cuba abortion is treated as lightly as getting a mole removed..

The legacy of the embargo will be Cuba's poverty and desperation. When the island comes out of it, they'll be even more desperate than they are now a….

So much depends on our health, and we tend to take it so for granted..

I feel possessive about stories I write in Spanish and so I usually end up translating those into English myself..