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Sep.04.2011
In the mountains of Honduras, it is said that the women grow old by the time they are twenty. In 1990, atop one of the highest mountains, a family of impoverished farmers was rumored to subsist on the only apron of land that had not been overfarmed, the last of the Maya descendants. I was the...
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Dec.10.2010
When people ask how my life has changed since adopting 3 children from Ethiopia two years ago, I tell them it has changed in every way. Now in my 40s, with a 3-, 5-, and 10-year old, I am enrolled in Motherhood 101: the accelerated course. While most of my friends are looking at an empty nest,...
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Nov.12.2010
THE SMART HEART
On a blustery fall day nearly two years ago, weeks after my two daughters and one son were adopted from Ethiopia, our two wild furry springerdoodles escaped. This was the 5th escape in a month. I had caught them at several failed attempts, trying to escape in three ways: 1) by...
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Aug.20.2010
Those of you who have been following me know that I have been traveling with my 10-year old daughter, newly home from Africa, on this book tour for "The Language of Trees." I came across this reading from Maya Angelou tonight and my daughter and I sat together and listened to this...
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About Ilie
My second novel THE SALT GOD'S DAUGHTER arrived on September 4, 2012. It has been called "bewitching" by Kirkus Reviews, which is as thrilling as the note I received from a wonderful woman two days after it was published telling me she loved it. My first...
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Causes Ilie Ruby Supports
Kamashi Children's Orphanage in Kamashi, Ethiopia