Last week in group therapy, people were complaining about the upcoming holidays. It was the seventh day of Hanukkah – that night, we’d be lighting the menorah for the last night – so I wasn’t sure what they meant. Upcoming holidays? — People often say things like, “Hanukkah is early this year,” when they shouldContinue reading
Today we have a guest post from Algonquin editor Andra Miller. It was a beautiful spring day in May and our publisher, Elisabeth Scharlatt, hosted a pre-event luncheon at her home in Southport, Connecticut. Author Stephen Scanniello, Ginny Arndt (director of programming for the Pequot Library), Carolan Workman, and myself enjoyed gazpacho, poached salmon, andContinue reading
This column appeared in the New York Daily News on Nov. 6, 2009 _________________________________________________ From the author of Lucky Girl, Mei-Ling Hopgood I can’t help but do a double take when I see a little Asian girl holding the hand of her white parent. Thirty years ago I was that child, an adoptee from TaiwanContinue reading