Helen Returns to Ethiopia PARADE Magazine January 13 2008 (unabridged version) Five-year-old Helen at her orphanage, 1995 Last week, Helen Samuel of Atlanta, Georgia, age 10, stepped foot in Addis Abab... Read full article...

613 Words: Not Everything is Black and White Atlanta Jewish Life Magazine February 01 2007 In Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, November 2001, I showed up at the gates of the compound of the Beta Israel people (disparagingly known as falashas), the Ethiop... Read full article...

Post-adoption Panic From the anthology, A LOVE LIKE NO OTHER: STORIES FROM ADOPTIVE PARENTS December 01 2005 Edited by Pamela Kruger and Jill Smolowe (New York: Riverhead Books, 2005). Reprinted in REDBOOK December 2005 When I found myself weeping in the laun... Read full article...

Sandlot Ball New York Times Magazine October 31 2004 Last summer in Atlanta, in the bright buggy late-afternoon heat of a midtown playground, a few Druid Hills High School baseball players taught a bunch of... Read full article...

What Will Become of Africa's Aids Orphans? New York Times December 22 2002 Four years ago, a fifth grader in my children's elementary school in Atlanta lost his father in a twin-engine private plane crash. The terrible news w... Read full article...

The Family Mobile New York Times Magazine August 19 2001 The Kayes family, with its 17 children, has survived by two mottos, Nancy Kayes tells me. She is 57, friendly and relaxed, with soft motherly skin, a head o... Read full article...