This is what adoption is all about. Mandis Zenaya Mlitwas posted this about her parents last year. She wrote: I wanna take this opportunity and thank God, for putting these wornderful people in my path. I am an adopted child I feel loved every single day that I wake up in the morning and I […]

On September 10, 1957, William C. Beall was doing what he had done many times before—covering a local parade for the Washington Daily News. The Chinese Merchants Association was hosting the event, and Beall was focused on capturing the lively dancers, drummers, and dragon costumes with his camera. But sometimes, history doesn’t arrive in a […]

Now that I am a seasoned parent of teenagers, I’m going back to the old school way that my dad made sure I made it home by curfew: an alarm clock. Before the days of technologically tracking your child, he would set an alarm clock for my curfew – and this is key, AFTER I […]

London, 1910. On a bitter morning in Whitechapel, a little girl named Eleanor Graves pressed her face against the window of a bakery. She was eight years old. Her fingers were cracked from the cold, and her dress was too thin for winter. Behind the glass, jam tarts and golden loaves glowed with a warmth […]