The ice storm predicted over the weekend by the weather folks missed us. We had the rain but the thermometer stayed above freezing at our place.
While staying indoors and only reading about outside activities I came across a couple of interesting stories in the New Times of Miami. Both are about Cuba and are written by "Our Woman in Havana" whose name is not disclosed because she snuck in as a tourist without a journalists' visa. Some do that because it is so difficult for an American reporter to get a journalists' visa. If the Cuban authorities decide they want the person out of the country they simply pick the person up at the hotel and provide free transportation to the airport for the next flight out. All of my efforts to get a visa since I was last in Cuba in 1979 have been fruitless.
One story deals with Cubans on the street and the other with independent journalists.
