Fatherhood is Not Nice
My father was outspoken. He offended people. His heart was too big and too fierce for most people, and he died by the time...
The Youngest Immigrants
My son is Guatemalan. I am not.
He became my son through adoption, when he was 10 months old. When I see photographs of crying...
Finding a wallet, finding wonder
I just took my son Brendan and his Nigerian buddy to see the movie “Wonder.” It was lovely. The whole movie is about the...
If You Don’t Have a Dad
I was 22, our dad had been dead for almost seven weeks and I was two weeks away from immigrating to the United States....









