Tag Archives: Between Light and Shadow

Interview on radio show “Adoption Discussions”

Today Donna Montalbano will interview me on the online radio show, “Adoption Discussions” which appears on Woonsocket Radio 1240. You can stream it live, or listen to it later, by clicking here. By the way, I had a great reading … Continue reading

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Next Up: Reading at Wisconsin Book Festival

This Thursday I’ll appear with fellow author Wendy Call (whose book No Word for Welcome explores how economic globalization intersects with village life in a region of southern Mexico called the Isthmus of Tehuantepec) at 5:30 p.m. at the Wisconsin … Continue reading

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Casa Quivira’s legal troubles date back to early ’90s

Three and a half years before my book, Between Light and Shadow, was published, I wrote a story for In These Times magazine titled Banana Republic to Baby Republic which revealed the role of Casa Quivira at the heart of … Continue reading

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Between Power and Weakness: Can Motherhood’s Bond Overcome an International Adoption Dilemma?

I published my first blog entry with the Huffington Post today. And I hope to add to this discussion every week or so. The impetus for this was the upsetting news that a cross-border custody battle appears to be developing … Continue reading

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Navigating between light and shadow, narrative and immersion

Anne-Marie Oomen, a superstar among the northern Michigan writing community, wrote this thoughtful and, I think, spot-on review of Between Light and Shadow, which ran earlier this month in the Glen Arbor Sun. What trilled me about her review was … Continue reading

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Book Reading and Signing, Saturday May 21, in Traverse City, Michigan

Earlier this week I received a welcome surprise in the mail. Amidst a frantic month of covering workers rights demonstration in Madison, Wisconsin, for TheUpTake.org, I had almost forgotten that Between Light and Shadow was on the verge of being … Continue reading

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