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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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2006-09-27
Politics & Prose Bookstore, Washington, D.C.
“Two people stopped by the desk on the...
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2006-11-06
A late-night internet conversation between The Author in Atlanta and her daughter, ...
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2006-11-07
The remarkable thing about a book tour is that the publicity reaches into wider terri...
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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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2006-11-08
In July, I flew back to Addis Ababa with our oldest son, Seth. We joined Lee, who was a...
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2006-11-08
"How can it be possible," my children are asking, "that all these years, whenever...
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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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2007-06-16
Yosef and Daniel Gizaw, brothers of about 10 and 13, arrived in Atlanta this past S...
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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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2007-06-19
Upon arrival in the U.S. on June 10, Yosef (who, like many Ethiopian children, had no i...
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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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2007-08-26
The new issue of ADOPTIVE FAMILIES Magazine includes a condensed version of my "Pos...
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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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2007-09-04
Let it never be said that I mislead people to believe that older-child adoption i...
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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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2007-09-06
Of course 7th-grade Daniel won't always speak English like this, but it's so much fun w...
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2007-09-09
Neither Yosef nor Daniel had ever been to a dentist before. The backs of their teeth w...
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2007-09-14
Unhappiness again. Yosef, age 10 (and very cute), provoked Fisseha, age 13 (...
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2007-09-26
Lee, at Oberlin College, was startled to get a text-message from Daniel at 1 a.m. on a ...
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2007-10-02
I am reduced to taking comfort from cliches. This morning within a ten-minute period J...
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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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2007-10-24
We live in a very pretty neighborhood of tree-lined hilly streets, upon which acorns fa...
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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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2007-11-27
This was the second time Donny and I had all nine of our children in on...
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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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2007-12-04
Hanukah is coming. I tell the children the story of tiny ancient Israel vanquishing th...
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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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2007-12-14
Molly works fulltime for the San Francisco-based www.ForestEthics.com, an environmental...
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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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2008-02-01
Many of you may have seen my article about returning with Helen to Ethiopia that appear...
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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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2008-03-04
At a recent conference of Jewish community activists, at which I spoke, I met Amos Kami...
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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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2008-03-26
Life becomes a bit easier, day by day. Sod has been laid down over the dust bowl that ...
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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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2008-05-14
Mother’s Day May 11, 2008
Before I could really enjoy it, it seems I had to fall apa...
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They are like children everywhere. Those who have been loved and nurtured since bi...
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