I’ve traveled a lot this fall on business:  Vancouver in September; Nevada in November; and last week, New York.   I’m a new experience and culture junkie, so stepping out of my element into other people’s known has always brought me a lot of joy.  This trip shaped up to be no exception. Although I’ve [...]

By the time Kiev banned non-Ukrainian singles from adopting in 2008, Anjelica’s memories of her orphanage years had largely faded, although she still recalls, with delight, towering sunflowers reaching up to second-story windows, and, with a shiver, bladelike icicles hanging from eaves in each of her winters there. The orphanage is still there, full of [...]