Start Typing and press enter to search

Sandi's Archives

Category: Writing

Except from “White Flag” by Judy Mandel

Lost in the Rain June 15, 2014 I am certain the photo on my computer screen is Cheryl, my sister Linda’s daughter. In some ways she looks the same. Her mother’s eyes, her father’s full round face, her thick hair like mine. But her eyes are empty, unfamiliar. What do…
Read More

May is Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month

It is so exciting to see all the new children’s books coming out in recent years that feature Asian characters. When I was a child, I NEVER saw Asian people in books, and I was an avid reader! The only ones in our home with people who looked like me…
Read More

Anne Whitney Pierce – Author

Author Anne Whitney Pierce is a lifelong Cantabrigian (it’s an adjective that refers or pertains to Cambridge University in England, or in Anne’s case, Cambridge, Massachusetts). The author of several books, her most recent, DOWN TO THE RIVER, references Harvard Square in the 60s. It follows the privileged Potts family…
Read More

Warda Mohamed Abdullahi – Author

Warda Mohamed Abdullahi has one hell of a story to share and she does so in her powerful memoir, “Warda: My Journey from the Horn of Africa to a College Education.” Her degree comes from a college in the U.S. How she got there is the basis of this riveting…
Read More

Amy Gravino – Autism Sexuality Advocate, Speaker, and Writer

Amy Gravino in a word? Cando. A force of nature, Amy was diagnosed with autism at the age of 11 and is currently a leader on sexuality, autism, and neurodiversity in sex education. And to that end, she is President of ASCOT, which offers autism consulting, college coaching, and mentoring…
Read More