Everything Burns

Everything Burns

Before I step through the doors of the cigar factory, I smell the aroma that has followed my sister, Rosario, home since she started working here. As my eyes adjust to the dim light, I make out the figures of rollers already at their cutting boards. “May I help you?”...
A Good Death

A Good Death

The word “doula,” from the Greek for “female servant,” has come to describe a person who provides emotional and physical support throughout the process of childbirth. This kind of care has been extended in recent years to the end of life, a passage as important and...