Blood Strangers, a new memoir by Kathy Briccetti is both a coming out and coming-of-age story as well as a genealogical mystery, which untangles a multi-generational chain of adoptions, family secrets, and fatherless children. Briccetti earned a Ph.D. in clinical...
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Soon after the birth of her twins, Avery and Bennett, Jennifer Graf Groneberg learned that Avery had Down syndrome. A writer, editor and mother to preschool-aged son Carter as well as the twins, Groneberg began writing about what it was...
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Violeta Garcia-Mendoza: I'm guessing that you, like me, get asked from time to time, "What are you?/Where are your parents from?" by people who are trying to put together your face with your name. How do you identify yourself? Cristina...
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Suzanne Kamata: What made you decide to go to Australia in the first place? Christina Thompson: I'd been working as a secretary at a newspaper in Seattle and I wanted to go back to school, but I also wanted to...
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LS: How did you get into screenwriting and directing? KD: I was a journalist in my twenties and wrote for Rolling Stone, Elle and other magazines, but I was getting frustrated with celebrity journalism. I was doing an interview with...
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Teresa Burns Gunther: What does "Condition Yellow" mean to you? To your children? Sophia Raday: Condition Yellow is part of the concept of Color Codes developed by Colonel Jeff Cooper, who was one of the foremost firearms and personal defense...
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