Digesting Architecture

I've been exploring our built environment lately, thanks to assignments from Architectural Digest's website (click on the pictures to get to the magazine's site). Topics have ranged from the precious handful of preserved historic theaters around the U.S....

The Way Forward

For months Mom waited for an apartment to open up—which meant, we realized, waiting for an occupant to die or to be transferred into the euphemistically named Memory Care wing. In the interim, we occupied ourselves with the colossal minutiae of moving.

Why Can’t Adoption Be Multicultural?: The New York Newsday Interview with Elizabeth Bartholet

Elizabeth Bartholet: “In my own case, the longer I’ve lived life as an adoptive parent, the more secure I’ve felt with the idea of openness. And it’s because the reality of an adoptive family for me is a quite wonderful, true form of family. There’s nothing fragile about it; I don’t live in fear that it would be shattered if some birth parent crossed the threshold.” (Newsday interview, 1993)