Motherhood
dated 2010-04-06 | posted in columns | topic People | permanent link
I don’t know what Portugal does for unwed, indigent mothers, but I can tell you that my God daughter is lucky to be living in France. Susanna, 18, left this country in September, two months pregnant and poor. She took the advice of the SOS Village in Bicesse where she was raised from age 3, to go live near her father in France. Initially she was afraid: “What if he rejects me?” she said between her tears and fears. But after several phone calls ...
Open House
dated 2010-04-20 | posted in columns | topic People | permanent link
My parents were educated, generous and inhospitable. They welcomed our nuclear family of four in our home, but no one else. As a young girl I played jacks at my neighbor’s house, spent the weekends at the country home of a friend and studied in the basement of my high school beau. It wasn’t that my parents disliked people: they just didn’t want them in our home. We had a large living room with a white, designer rug that spoke “Stay out.” Ev ...