I was never worried about getting sitters when I first began thinking about this series. That’s because we Puerto Ricans are a social and gregarious people. Each of us has more than a thousand friends on Facebook. We do everything as part of a group. When we are hospitalized, we get dozens of visitors every day. So I was …

Eleven days after, I have driven all over the northern part of the metropolitan area at all times, doing errands and visiting potential sitters. I have been asked how I see the people. I have found people patient and kind, but worn down by the reality that is doing any kind of business in an island facing austerity measures under …

The beaches are pristine in the tourist towns of the San Juan and Carolina municipalities.  The attendant charged me $5 to park my car at the immense, empty lot I used to traverse in a big hurry as a child, when my feet burned from not wearing flip flops. Back then, the parking lot was almost  full at this …