I started last term by asking my students to write what their purposes in life are (a question that my father has asked to several generations of teachers). Mabel Encinas Many of my students, future child psychologists and current teachers, answered that they want “to make a difference”. […]
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With the sun on your back…
If your back hurts, don’t worry, studies show that four out of five people have, or will have at some time in their lives, lower back pain. Vivian Collazo Montano We are talking about an illness that is almost always caused by badly maintained posture and poor muscle […]
Which jungle is José Eustasio Rivera writing about?
“Before I became passionate about any woman, I gambled with my heart and violence won.” – The Vortex Armando Orozco Tovar It is strange that Jose Eustasio Rivera (b. Neiva-Huilla 1886) died young in New York, not because a visit from the Grim Reaper is unusual for anyone, […]
Nagela Talita: Better here than in any other city
Originally from Brazil, at 27-years-old Nagela Talita can say that she has been living in various countries. With an unstoppable path, Nagela left her birth city aged 14-years old and travelled to Germany because of her mother’s job, where she lived for four years. Paula Coll Ortega She […]
Miguel Hernández, poetry and prison
What did I do to deserve so much time inside? It was 1961, in the poet Darío Samper’s library, when I first came to know Miguel Hernández. Armando Orozco Tovar The Spanish poet, was sitting in a corduroy suit, head shaved head, and with works of poetry and […]













