Therapist-in-Training, Former Journalist, Founder of Unmasking Therapy
This essay is part of the #52essays2017 series focusing on my memoir, Moscow Chica: How Growing Up in Cuba and Russia Made Me an American. For more, please follow this publication and subscribe to my newsletter. In our last year living in Moscow, my parents, baby brother, and I all lived together in a studio apartment. I don’t remember much about that time –…
Please subscribe to my newsletter to get writing news and updates. At the start of the year, I wrote about the 7 fearless things I am doing for my career in 2017 and exactly why I am signing up for the #52essays2017 challenge. I also committed to making 2017 my #yearofwriting… my theme for the year, if…
This essay is part of the #52essays2017 series focusing on my memoir, Moscow Chica: How Growing Up in Cuba and Russia Made Me an American. For more, please follow this publication and subscribe to my newsletter. It was my last New Year’s Eve in Russia when I realized that Santa Claus was not real. I remember it clearly: The snow was coming down, and…
This essay is part of the #52essays2017 series focusing on my memoir, Moscow Chica: How Growing Up in Cuba and Russia Made Me an American. For more, please follow this publication and subscribe to my newsletter. On January 31st, 1990, the first-ever McDonald’s opened in Moscow. At the time, life in the U.S.S.R. was difficult. I was almost four years old and my family…
Note: This is 3 of 3 essays that was written for and published on The Flama last year. However, the site has since shut down (mostly) and my essay has disappeared… But the internet gods allowed me to find it in its entirety, so I am re-posting it here since a) it was fun to write & b) I…