Podcast Time!
Cumplí 60 y ¿Ahora qué? It’s been a long time since I wrote and today I woke up wanting to tell stories. When I turned 50, two years ago, my perspective on life changed a lot and recently one of my best friends turned 60 and experienced the same thing, so she came up Read More
Grandma’s Wisdom Helps You Heal
When I was a child, at five years old, I received a wonderful gift from my paternal grandmother, Niña Rebe. She was a great reader, a woman with a heart of gold and much wisdom thanks to her reading habits, so she gave me The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, as a birthday gift. Read More
Did Someone Really Know What Happened to Lourdes?
All stories have an ending. Good, bad, sad, unexpected, abrupt, but ending anyway. The story of Francisco and Lourdes is no exception. They had been good friends since childhood, and their families found what is known today as El Trigal. A desolate town became a prosperous city thanks to these two families of great entrepreneurs Read More
Two Unhealed Broken Souls
This is the story of two lovers who decided to build their love with a broken soul. Cleo was a beautiful young woman, around her twenties, abandoned by her mother at the age of 4, who took her to live with her aunt Victoria, and Cesar, the older son of a couple who, after several Read More
Guess Who Cries by the Milking Pen
The legend says that one day, in 1967, a countryside family was preparing to leave the land they had lived on for years and had worked so hard to harvest. They had a beautiful piece of land, full of fruit trees, wildflowers, spring water, and a starry sky every night, but tragedy knocked on their Read More
Fermina y Florentino
A couple of years ago, out of the blue, I read again “Love in the Time of Cholera” and felt my memory jolt, recalling my times as a college student, when literature consumed my study hours. This story, as romantic as it is disturbing, makes me question the characters’ behavior. Fermina Daza suffered in silence Read More
La Niña Rebe
Rebeca, better known as “La Niña” Rebe, was born in a beautiful city in Colombia, called Montería, where the Sinú River flows impetuously while jealously guarding the Macondian stories of its inhabitants. She was barely 15 years old when she met the one who would become the love of her life and soon after she Read More
Yatasirama Is Coming Back
A long time ago, there was an old foreman cowboy who delighted us with his anecdotic stories while enjoying lonely nights with a few drinks. One of the stories that caught my attention was that of Yatasirama. This character was the product of a terrible nightmare that tormented the cowboy, who felt how someone scratched Read More
Lifting the Rug Up
Time to clean up! It’s never too late, but you have to start somewhere. We all have things in our history that we prefer not to talk about, either because it’s painful or because it’s more comfortable to look the other way and think that if we don’t talk about it, it simply doesn’t exist. Read More
When the Whistle Man Sings, Any Witch Will Be His Partner
For those who do not know the story of the whistle man, and its different variations depending on the region where it has been heard, there is a very particular legend and it is that the farther away you hear its whistle, the closer this soul in pain is. If we add to this the Read More
The Art of Let It Go
Who said letting go was easy? It is perhaps one of the most complex decisions we have to face when life puts us in situations we don’t want to accept. When we can let go, we stop feeling guilt for past decisions, regret for those decisions we never made, and uncertainty about the decisions we Read More