Party 2023
I’m posting a few pictures from our annual Guatadopt party, which this year featured traditional textiles modeled by young women in our group. Thank you to everyone for your amazing energy, friendship and support in setting up, cooking, serving, hauling dishes up and down stairs, washing dishes and bagging up trash. And for being your […]
A brief encounter
This essay means a lot to me and I’m happy to see it published in the Marin Independent Journal. It’s called “A Brief Encounter with a Good Man Gone Too Soon.” Thanks for reading.
Interview in The Bookends Review
I’m grateful to my MFA buddy and friend, Diane Gottlieb, for placing this interview with me in The Bookends Review. The piece was published on April 13, 2022, but I’m a little behind in everything. An excerpt: After you wrote Mamalita, you switched to fiction and wrote your first novel, Mother Mother. What was behind that decision? […]
Story collection by Kevin Fisher-Paulson
Our adoption book group will meet on Sunday for the first time since the pandemic began—two years! I loved the book so much I’m sharing the title: How We Keep Spinning…!, a selection of columns from the San Francisco Chronicle by Kevin Fisher-Paulson. Kevin and his husband Brian are adoptive dads to two sons, Aidan […]
Mateo’s Perspective
My son Mateo is on the radio! His short 2-minute essay, Meeting My Birth Mother, aired today on KQED-FM Perspectives. Mateo wrote the piece as an assignment for his Language and Composition class. His teacher, Mr. Hettleman, submitted the Perspectives of several students to KQED and Mateo’s was one of two that were chosen. Thank […]