Ana Navarro and Me

Ana Navarro and Me

Last Saturday, I by chance ran into Ana Navarro in Milams supermarket in Miami. She doesn’t know me from Adam. I said hello to her and we had a pleasant conversation in the aisles there. She was as charming and delightful as you would expect. It turns out she lives near me in Coral Gables. I pass by her house almost every day on the way to the tennis courts at the Biltmore. She spends the week in New York where her shows are recorded. She mentioned to me that she was recording on Monday an interview with Lin-Manual Miranda for her podcast Bleep. On that day I had the pleasure of seeing her first on the View at 11am, then watching her interview with Lin-Manuel for an hour on YouTube, then again at 10pm with Abby Phillip (who I also greatly admire). I value Ana’s blunt eloquence, sparkling intelligence, moral insight, and sheer toughness—not to mention her epic takedowns of Donald J. Trump. I wonder if I will run into her again. She made me realize how Latinized I have become after living in Miami for twenty years. Almost everyone I know is from Latin America.