Here’s a photo image passing around on Facebook. Is it sad but true? I guess it depends on how you see the world. Since it hits such a chord and ten’s of thousands of people have shared it, there must be some truth here:
The recent passing of African Nobel laureate, Wangari Maathai, got me thinking about her many contributions to life on our planet; and also about a less publicized role she played – as a mother. I wrote about her struggle and that of too many women of child-bearing age for ABC’s Million Moms Challenge. Read the…
The age difference between my oldest child and youngest is ten years. The daughter who was in third grade on September 11, 2001 started her first year of college last week, and the “baby” is now at the same school, sitting in the exact same elementary classroom as her big sister did on 9/11/01. I…
I was recently interviewed via Skype for the BBC World Service. They were doing a series on “How Global is Your Family” and for this segment, the delightful interviewer spontaneously veered in the direction of all those people who might not think they actually are “global,” inviting me to make a case for why people…
(Originally posted on Huffington Post Education.) We had been bracing ourselves for the last day of our exchange student “daughter” Lucie’s stay with us. Over the year the five members of our family had each developed inside jokes with her, had favorite things to do, from actually enjoying practicing piano with her, to predicting the…
(Originally posted on the Huffington Post’s “World” page) In the midst of this intense heat wave I was looking forward to picking up my 8-year old from her day camp and getting our favorite treat – Philly water ice. Over the course of the work day I strategized: passion fruit and mango with vanilla custard,…
