On the road with The Good Braider, I experienced an event this month of Thanksgiving that I will never forget. I’m giving thanks here to all the pIayers who not only imagined, but pulled off a Global Voices […]
Try the Lizard Point geoquiz! Can you name these African countries? You get three chances. You can also move on to the rest of the world on Lizard Point maps. p.s. Click “Help” to get the answer.
…hosted a conversation about welcoming immigrants. WSCA’s Radio Gazette invited Dr. Susan Craig, an educator, and me, a writer. We had both worked in Portland, Maine. Susan directed a program to train educators to work with students from all over the world, and I taught at the Salt […]
I’M YOUR NEIGHBOR is the name of a website and a concept. Kirsten Cappy is the creator. Ann Sibley O’Brien and I are on the I’m-Your-Neighbor team, and we’re writers of books that Kirsten features on this new site which is about creating events around children’s and YA […]
My novel, The Good Braider, is based on dozens of oral histories as well as much research about Sudan. I want to tell you about a play whose script is created around oral histories of immigrants. “Dreaming Again,” commissioned by the NH Humanities Council and written by Genevieve Aichele, […]