More reviews for MAMALITA. One calls it “Part thriller, part love story, part...
What a great feeling to have readers respond to Mamalita: An Adoption Memoir. “Guateangel” wrote a review on Amazon that included this sentence: “As an adoptive mother who adopted from Guatemala I want...
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During the years I was writing Mamalita, I heard a lot of helpful advice about what to do and what not to do when writing a book. One of the most helpful lessons I learned was the importance of...
View ArticleMamalita Book Tour
With everything else going on around here–school, family, life–I almost forgot that I have a few upcoming stops on my Mamalita Book Tour. I’ll be reading at the great Northern California independent...
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I still want to say more about this summer—Latin American Heritage Camp in Colorado; a visit to Guatemala where we met up with Service Trips to Guatemala with Leceta and Common Hope; and a week in...
View ArticleAdoptive Families magazine publishes “Mateo’s Family Tree”
A few months ago, I wrote a blog post about an experience I had while in Mateo’s kindergarten classroom. The post resonated for many readers, who encouraged me to expand the short blog into a longer...
View ArticleAdoptive Families magazine’s annual cover photo contest.
Calling all parents of adorable kids (and really, isn’t that every one of us?)! The deadline for Adoptive Families magazine’s annual cover photo contest is September 4, 2013. Snap those photos and...
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