orphans | orphans
Dec.28.2012
ASK THE AUTHOR
1. WHERE DID THE INSPIRATION FOR THE CHARACTER OF ARI COME FROM?
An infant boy was found abandoned and brought to the Baby Home where I worked in Jerusalem. I loved this little fellow, who eventually was adopted by a kibbutz family. The grown-up Ari is a figment of my...
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Jun.19.2012
Defending the Defenseless
Make justice your aim: redress the wronged,
hear the orphan’s plea, defend the widow.
--Isaiah 1, 17
After Mom passed, my father completely lost the will to live. He could not do...
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Mar.26.2012
March 26
THE ORPHANAGE OF MY HEART
The orphanage of my heart holds many children, children of my past. They gaze at me, fixed in an attempt to draw me near their needs. I scurry, often my head down, eyes averted, not knowing how to offer comfort or...
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Feb.14.2012
There is a wonderful exchange in The Pirates of Penzance between The Pirate King and The Major-General in which they get confused over the words 'orphan' and 'often'.
I often (not orphan) think of this scene when I tell someone that "my new ebook THE MARRIAGE GIFT is a romance" and then they...
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Jan.24.2011
A few weeks ago, my friend Kristen at Rage Against the Minivan blogged about actions all of us (particularly people who aren’t in a position to adopt) can take to address the global orphan crisis. I woke up thinking about it this morning so I thought I’d share the link to her amazing and solution-...
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Apr.18.2010
It was the first book that was all mine and I slept with it under my pillow. All the other books in the house belonged to Mom or were shared with my brother and sister, neither of whom cared anything about reading or books, not then, not when I was ten and they were eight and five. My sister was...
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Feb.10.2010
Well Haiti is now further on the backburner. Some good meaning folks went over there and tried to take some Haitian children (orhpans?); never minding that at least one of the children said she had parents. They were bringing them to a better life.
Sarah Palin, while in an interview, had written...
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Sep.18.2009
The other morning I was walking down 14th Avenue on my way to work when I passed a boy going the opposite way, uphill to Hoover Middle School. (It’s odd that we have a school called Hoover in San Francisco, the most Democratic of cities.) The boy was small for his age and had a dreamy look on his...
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Aug.20.2009
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/wideangle/episodes/eyes-of-the-storm/full-episod...
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Aug.12.2009
This is a first time blog. When I received the invitation from Red Room to write about my hero, I felt compelled to do so. Bear with me. I usually do not write for others. Here goes:
I picture my son, laying in a crib lined in yellow and brown stained sheets, wet with urine and tears. He...
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