Diesel, A Bookstore in Oakland is pleased to present contributors to The Teachable Moment: Seizing the Instants When Children Learn, on Sunday, August 22 at 3pm. Reading and signing.
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Nov.24.2010 - 11:41 am
I grew up with one sibling, a younger brother, and it wasn't until I was 16 that I discovered I had two half-sisters and a half-brother who lived with our father and his second...
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Jul.20.2010 - 10:49 am
Because I wanted a peek into my not-so-distant future, I ran over to San Francisco to catch the first showing of Sundance favorite The Kids Are All Right, a film that could be...
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Jun.11.2010 - 3:30 pm
Writing a memoir is definitely not for sissies. My fifteen-year-old son was reading his advance copy of my book a few months ago, and every evening when I walked past him, his...
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Feb.13.2009 - 3:52 pm
On Valentine’s Day, twelve-year-old Ben races into the house and heads straight to the kitchen. “Are we having Cactus?” he asks Pam.
“Yes, you’re having a treat tonight,” she...
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Jul.01.2010
Published by The East Bay Express
It's a psychologically gripping tale of love, loss, and sexual identity, but it's also the story of adoptions spanning three generations. Briccetti was four when her parents...
About Kathy
Kathy Briccetti's essays and book reviews have been published in literary magazines, newspapers and anthologies. Her first memoir, BLOOD STRANGERS, the story of searching for her place in her family's three generations of adoption and absent fathers, was...
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