Having good relations with lots of lots of different people helps a lot.
When I was back in Cuba, who could have imagined I would be invited to the White House!
My dad left when I was a little boy and I grew up with my mother's family. There were foundations in the U. S. where Jewish people got together and sent money to Cuba, so we got some of that. We were a poor family, but I was always a happy kid.
The women I love most are Latina - my sister, mother, and daughter. They're spontaneous but spend a majority of their time trying to make others happy.
I have lots of girlfriends - all over the country! You think I'm kidding? I'm dead serious. Girlfriends everywhere.
I try to give my kids everything I never had.
In Cuba you get a quarter of a chicken per month. They give you one bread per person a day. So, it makes your life really tough.
Oh, what a day-to-day business life is.
I got a rejection letter from an editor at HarperCollins, who included a report from his professional reader. This report shredded my first-born novel, laughed at my phrasing, twirled my lacy pretensions around and gobbed into the seething mosh pit of my stolen clichés. As I read the report, the world became very quiet and stopped rotating. What poisoned me was the fact that the report's criticisms were all absolutely true. The sound of my landlady digging in the garden got the world moving again. I slipped the letter into the trash. . . knowing I'd remember every word.
Campus. . . brings back so many memories that I would. . . have made.
The Affordable Care Act also offered protections that allow for preexisting conditions, as people know, that you're provided coverage and you can maintain steady coverage. And that's an important part of being able to stay in care and do better over the long run.