March 8, 2021: International Women’s Day

I am up early this morning, wondering what will transpire on this day. A call has been issued by most governments of the world urging “restraint”. Plainly said: Now ladies, let’s be reasonable. Please refrain from defacing public buildings and toppling monuments to macho accomplishments. Dealing with millions of angry women marching in the streets

Writing: on-again, off-again

In August 2008, there I sat with my pile of empty book boxes. The previous year had been a time of such creativity and growth. TOMANDO AGUA DEL POZO was successful, and I got it into my head that I should try fiction. Fortune provided me with an opportunity to attend a creative writing workshop

How my writing career began: Part Three

In 1992, when I decided to stop writing for “The News”, I found out how much my writing meant to me. But as I’ve said, with everything that was going on, I did not have time to worry about it. Using just a typewriter, even the state-of-the-art one I had – electric with automatic shifting,