"The ache for home lives in all of us. The safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned." (Maya Angelou)
I started this blog in June 2007. After an uncertain beginning, it pretty soon became a space where I could let my creativity run wild. Unsurprisingly, many of the pieces I wrote here made it to my first book, " Cuban, Immigrant, and Londoner ". The experience of blogging and the (mostly) positive feedback I received as a blogger, gave me the confidence to approach publishers.
However, as many of you, fellow bloggers and readers, have noticed, I don't post here often. That's because in between holding two jobs (teaching English as a foreign language and delivering cycling training, in addition to promoting my book when possible) I find it difficult to update this much-cherished space of mine. That's why I have decided to pause for the time being. I won't be idle, though. In fact, I haven't been idle. One of the reasons why I'm taking a break from Blogger is that for the last seve