The Other Mother Late into the night, Marjorie Nagel writes in a journal listing feeding and sleeping schedules, as well as cuddle times. She has done this for each of the eighty-two babies that Marjorie has fostered. A diary of the daily love and care they received intermingles with the…
On April 12, Street Children Day, my mind grappled with the statistic. An unbelievable 100 million youngsters in the world, living in the shadows, now stand in the light for all to see. Not just the rising toll of Syrian orphans who have lost their parents in war, but those…
The orphan trains moved over 200,000 homeless children from Five Points, NYC to the farms of Midwest farmers who fostered or adopted them. Lampos explains the reasons for this placing out of orphans to strangers by three organizations. A storyteller, Lampos will relate the experiences of Lee Nailing as he…
Summer isn’t looking good for Alana Alcott, an urban teacher of gifted students. She’s been court ordered to teach summer school with Outward Bound instructor Mike Reynolds. Their students? Five unruly foster kids whose stories of abandonment mirror Alana’s own childhood more than she wants to admit. Mike, in particular,…
