My love of reading began when my mama would read to us every night. She wanted us to be educated and literate, so we could assimilate...

Living in New York in the 1970’s, it was hard not to hear the radio playing music everywhere I walked. On my way to my grandmother's...

It has been my dream from childhood to write a book. Not just any book, but a book from the heart that comes from the desire for...

I grew up in Morris Heights, Bronx, New York during the late 1960’s and early 1970’s. It wasn’t the nightmare it became after the mid...

I have been asked what "Boricua" means and how it is pronounced. Long before Spain conquered Puerto Rico, indigenous Taino people called...

I wanted to write a book that everyone could relate to. My inspiration was Alex Hailey’s Roots, Gabriel Garcia Marques’s Love in the Time...

Recently, my brother Anthony @ https://instagram.com/fieryyphoenix, got his DNA tested by 23 and Me, https://www.23andme.com/. Not much...

I love all of the many colors in Puerto Rico from the tropical flowers, the Caribbean sea, the birds, and the trees. Most of all I love...

The smell of sizzling sofritos---the “holy trinity” of Puerto Rican cooking consisting of onions, red peppers, ajis (chilies), garlic,...

New York City wasn’t always the place I called home. I lived in Puerto Rico at the impressionable age of five years old until I was...