Journalist | Editor | Author of the Parenting in Hard Mode newsletter
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…
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. I had this “friend” in middle and high school who used to love to make fun of my heritage. Year after year, the words “double commie” came out…
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. My grandfather shook me awake suddenly. My eyes slowly opened, feeling groggy and tired from our overnight flight. It was five in the afternoon there, in the suburbs of Moscow,…