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A eulogy for my twelve-year-old dog, Hazel.

Bishop William Meade, a pro-slavery preacher, may be my ancestor. My novel, Neither Slave nor Free, alters that shameful family story.

I came to Vietnam seeking forgiveness. Around 1970, when my father was about to be drafted and sent to war in Vietnam, he and my mother...

At the beginning of last school year my daughter made a friend who has had an especially hard childhood. As the year wore on, she learned...