balto
I’m behind in everything. Pretend it’s February 2 as you read this. xo Has anyone else read BALTO to their kids? Oh, how Mateo loved that book. He couldn’t get enough of the story of Balto, the Alaskan husky who led a team of sled dogs on the final leg of the 674-mile run to […]
“The Faithful” essay
I read today that the San Francisco Catholic Archdiocese “very likely” plans to file for bankruptcy due to a recent “onslaught” of child abuse cases filed against its priests and other employees over decades. Seventeen years ago, the SF Chronicle Magazine published my essay “The Faithful” about my Irish Catholic father’s response to the first […]
11 years ago
Eleven years ago today. Us at the Golden Gate Bridge. Sometimes, I miss those simpler days. Grateful for this happy memory.
New Yorker essay on adoption’s emotional aftermath
I’m sharing “Living in Adoption’s Aftermath” by Larissa MacFarquhar in The New Yorker’s April 3, 2023 edition. It’s an intense read, well-researched, with a focus on a mostly older cohort of adoptees who are reckoning with “corruption in orphanages, hidden birth certificates, and the urge to search for their birth parents.” Larissa MacFarquhar does an […]
Vocabulary lesson
I remember when I learned the definition of “harbinger.” I was an adult, definitely not a kid. Somehow the word had slipped past me. Now I can even use it in a sentence: Spring!