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2012-01-01
There you will find the updated legal regulations governing American adoption o...
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2011-02-24
little by little I'm moving this website's material over to & posting new material at h...
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2011-01-10
"Love Medicine," in the new (FEB 2011) issue of Good Housekeeping was commissione...
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2011-01-10
SORRY to have been out of touch here!
I know some of my readers here have come o...
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2010-10-28
http://www.creatingafamily.org/radioshow/393.html
This is a fantastic blog-plu...
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2010-04-14
Here's, strangely, what Torry Hansen's situation reminds me of:
NOT my early weeks of ...
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2010-03-01
Huffington Post's guest blogger, Alemayehu G. Mariam, a California professor of politic...
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2010-03-01
Helping 6th-grade Yosef prepare for a civics quiz, I asked: "What are the three branch...
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2010-02-15
CBS Evening News may have a report tonight about the American adoption agency, Christia...
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2010-02-03
I'm on Facebook. Please feel free to "friend" me.
I'm back in touch with almost the ...
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2010-02-03
On Sunday morning I tried to wake up a strange boy for a bar mitzvah lesson. I t...
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2009-12-17
I heard back from the Christian World Adoption (CWA) director, Mr. Bob Harding; we spok...
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2009-11-09
I have been informed my entire adoptive-parenting life by the writings of the cohort of...
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2009-10-13
As many of you know, Mrs. Haregewoin's surviving daughter, Sosina Worku, has stepped ...
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2009-10-08
Alarmed by the documentary, "Fly Away Children" (which you can view at http://www.ethio...
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2009-09-22
Rainswept Georgia, rainswept front yard. We were lucky: the only flooding we exp...
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2009-08-23
Check out Molly's beautiful blog at www.californiasislands.com
This is her pho...
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2009-06-20
Our daughter Molly, a freelance radio producer & reporter in San Francisco, has been na...
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2009-05-26
(written in pencil on my business stationary, with hearts and other designs, and delive...
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2009-04-17
Friends have asked about Lee & Maya's experience with a Passover Seder at a small Beta ...
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2009-04-16
My son Lee Samuel, 21, and his friend Maya Selber are spending the two weeks of the...
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2009-03-19
Dear Friends,
By now you may have learned the shocking news that Mrs. Haregewoin...
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2009-03-17
I have learned this morning that our dear friend Mrs. Haregewoin Teferra has died. ...
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2008-12-24
I published a book review this week in the New York Times:
http://www.nytimes.com/2...
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2008-12-24
For a fun Hanukah outing after candle-lighting and dinner last night, I forced the chil...
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2008-11-04
Last night I sat gazing out Helen's window into the woods behind the house, feeling a r...
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2008-10-15
Last week wasn't a time of high academic achievement for Jesse. He failed a test and h...
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2008-10-06
[My essay is reprinted with permission from THE AMERICAN JOURNEY OF BARACK OBAMA, b...
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2008-10-06
I must sadly acknowledge that the title, "Occasonal Blog," barely even applie...
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2008-09-02
WONDERTIME Magazine has published an article of mine about a new approach to bull...
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2008-07-23
One of the great joys of sending off five children to camp, equipped with duffle bags, ...
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2008-07-22
We were delighted to see Entertainment Weekly's Special Double Issue -- "Our 1000th...
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2008-06-15
On the weekend of May 16-18, we celebrated the collective b’...
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2008-05-14
Mother’s Day May 11, 2008
Before I could really enjoy it, it seems I had to fall apa...
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2008-04-21
I get dozens of wonderful emails and letters every week. I keep thinking I should post...
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2008-03-26
Life becomes a bit easier, day by day. Sod has been laid down over the dust bowl t...
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2008-03-04
Our son Seth Greene Samuel has created a website that allows us to hear his music. ...
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2008-03-04
At a recent conference of Jewish community activists, at which I spoke, I met Amos Kami...
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2008-02-07
Molly called from San Francisco and mentioned, "There was a guy standing outside my off...
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2008-02-01
Many of you may have seen my article about returning with Helen to Ethiopia that appear...
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2008-01-19
Fisseha & Daniel got in a fist-fight.
A real fight, a violent fight. Like somethin...
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2007-12-14
Molly works fulltime for the San Francisco-based www.ForestEthics.com, an environmental...
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2007-12-06
Daniel Samuel
Water and ice fiends one day
the water said I am good you
a...
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2007-12-04
Hanukah is coming. I tell the children the story of tiny ancient Israel vanquishing th...
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2007-12-03
We’ve had a great few days. I may be starting to get the hang of having six children i...
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2007-11-27
This was the second time Donny and I had all nine of our children in on...
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2007-11-10
How do you explain Halloween to newly-arrived Ethiopian boys? They nodded with polite ...
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2007-10-24
We live in a very pretty neighborhood of tree-lined hilly streets, upon which acorns fa...
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2007-10-08
Last night a friend and I took five of the children (Helen, Yosef, Jesse, Daniel &...
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2007-10-02
I am reduced to taking comfort from cliches. This morning within a ten-minute period J...
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2007-09-26
Lee, at Oberlin College, was startled to get a text-message from Daniel at 1 a.m. on a ...
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2007-09-14
Unhappiness again. Yosef, age 10 (and very cute), provoked Fisseha, age 13 (...
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2007-09-09
Neither Yosef nor Daniel had ever been to a dentist before. The backs of their teeth w...
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2007-09-06
Of course 7th-grade Daniel won't always speak English like this, but it's so much fun w...
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2007-09-05
I came home last night from a PTA meeting and found Lily, 15, and Helen, 11, and Yosef,...
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2007-09-04
Let it never be said that I mislead people to believe that older-child adoption i...
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2007-09-03
“What did you learn today?” I ask the gangly new 13-year-old in the house. I enunci...
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2007-08-26
The new issue of ADOPTIVE FAMILIES Magazine includes a condensed version of my "Pos...
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2007-08-01
When our daughter Helen came to our family from Ethiopia six years ago, she was delight...
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2007-06-19
Upon arrival in the U.S. on June 10, Yosef (who, like many Ethiopian children, had no i...
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2007-06-17
Suitcases lie half-filled all over the house; we leave in a few hours for upstate New Y...
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2007-06-16
Yosef and Daniel Gizaw, brothers of about 10 and 13, arrived in Atlanta this past S...
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2006-11-09
In the U.K. for my book tour, I am invited into the London BBC studio. I am interview...
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2006-11-08
"How can it be possible," my children are asking, "that all these years, whenever...
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2006-11-08
In July, I flew back to Addis Ababa with our oldest son, Seth. We joined Lee, who was a...
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2006-11-07
The remarkable thing about a book tour is that the publicity reaches into wider territo...
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2006-11-07
My husband, Don Samuel, and I have seven children: Molly, 25; Seth, 22; Lee, 18; Lily, ...
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2006-11-06
A late-night internet conversation between The Author in Atlanta and her daughter, ...
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2006-09-27
Politics & Prose Bookstore, Washington, D.C.
“Two people stopped by the desk on the...
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2006-03-15
Our son Lee Samuel graduated from Druid Hills High School in Atlanta in December 20...
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