By now most of you have seen the pictures at our southern border of asylum seekers and people fleeing their countries. What about undocumented people already here in the U.S. Some of them overstayed their visas, some were brought here as babies or small children and didn’t apply for citizenship when they reached eighteen. Some […]
Do you write? If so, what is your genre? This gets harder and harder to identify. What used to be simply mysteries is now a long list of categories such as cozy, police procedurals, thriller, suspense, etc. My genre has been narrowed as well. I write narrative non-fiction, different from creative non-fiction – factually accurate prose […]
I ask because I’m attending the North America Writers Conference in February and wonder if any of you will be there. It’s an opportunity to meet so many people in the business as well as other nonfiction writers. If you write, please let me know your genre, your subject and your experience. If you’re published, […]
What about them? Here’s what I’ve learned. Nationwide 1 in 14 K-12 students have at least one undocumented parent. 5.9 million U.S. citizen children have an undocumented family member Around 725,000 students are undocumented Wherever their parents have come from, their children may have no knowledge of that country. Without family ties or language, what […]
How long must you live in a place to find people who make a difference? I moved here six years ago and didn’t know a soul. Just learning to navigate this major city after living in a town of 3,000 in the winter and a small city the other eight months was almost overwhelming. I […]
A few weeks ago another FF member and I were guests of the Raleigh-Durham North Carolina chapter, along with twenty others. Day hosts picked us up each morning for the day’s activities. My home hosts had said goodbye to guests from the Dominican Republic as we arrived and were taking a much needed break. We […]
Israel has banned Jewish Voices for Peace from entering the country along with nineteen other organizations in the Boycott, Divestment and Sanction movement. (BDS). And a member of their own Knesset has been told that he can’t formally accept an invitation from JVP to speak in the U.S. Really. He’s appealing to the Israeli Supreme […]
What a difference a year makes. Last year my family adopted a troubled child who’d suffered mightily. I won’t reveal names or places to protect all involved. Personally, I was terribly upset at the trauma this might inflict on the young biological children. I disagreed with the entire operation. I just came back from a […]
Have any of you been on a mission trip? In state? In country? Out of the country? Where? What was the result of the trip and what did you do while you were there? I ask because I wonder what such a trip does for you and for the people you visit. As I read […]
This is what the UN Commission on Humanitarian Affairs is reporting: Sustained hostilities in south-west Syria since 17 June have led to the displacement of an estimated 271,800 individuals as of 2 July. Of those, approximately 60,000 displaced to areas in close proximity to the Nasib/Jaber border crossing with Jordan, including the free zone, and […]