Glad to share my research into foster/adoption policies and history on Adoption.com, the world’s largest adoption website and adoptive parent platform. I hope it will make a useful guide for prospective foster/adoptive parents. Wish I’d known all of this going into the fost/adopt process years ago! When considering adopting kids from foster care, prospective parentsContinue reading “Guide for foster/adoptive parents on #1 adoption site”
Author Archives: Lane Igoudin
“Raising Them to Be Strong” Featured in Bay Windows
Bay Windows, Boston-based LGBTQ newspaper and news site, appoached me asking to reprint “Raising Them to Be Strong: A Gay Dad’s Reflections on Parenting Daughters,” my Father’s Day article published earlier this year by Family Equality, the nationwide gay family advocacy organization. I gladly said yes and am delighted to see it both on theContinue reading ““Raising Them to Be Strong” Featured in Bay Windows”
#AWP22 Panel Proposal Accepted
The upcoming #AWP22 (Philadelphia) has accepted my panel proposal for Where Every Voice Matters: Community College Literary Journal Showcase. I am thrilled to moderate a panel with such accomplished writers/teachers as Maria Frances Brandt, Joe Baumann, Omar Figueras, and Magin LaSov Gregg. #AWP (Association of Writers and Writing Programs) – a carnival, a marathon, aContinue reading “#AWP22 Panel Proposal Accepted”
Writing Inward: The Power of Critical Self-Reflection
What is critical self-reflection? How does it apply to writing and language studies? My chapter “Critical Ethnography and Dialogic Reflection in Student-Led Language Research” in a new academic volume What Is Critical in Language Studies: Disclosing Social Inequalities and Injustice (Routledge, 2021) discusses critical self-reflection in language studies and is related to a study IContinue reading “Writing Inward: The Power of Critical Self-Reflection”
“Raising Them to Be Strong” | Father’s Day Post on Family Equality.org
Happy Father’s Day 2021! It’s been a deeply fulfilling, spiritually transformative journey for my husband and me. Our story, featured today on FamilyEquality.org, the nationwide LGBTQ family advocacy organization, recounts the joys and challenges of two men raising daughters since babyhood. So how do we do it?
Reading a New Story Live at AWP21
Read “The Grass Eater,” my new personal essay as part of a live virtual reading organized by the AWP Creative Writing Caucus at the virtual AWP 2021 on March 4. At the center of the story is a devilish 7-year-old who wrecks his mother’s seaside honeymoon. The setting is the Republic of Georgia; the timeContinue reading “Reading a New Story Live at AWP21”
“The iPad Wars” in City Tales 2020, a YouTube storytelling show
This was a new performance format for me to learn – I’d taped myself reading the essay “The iPad Wars” for City Tales, the annual storytelling reading by LACC students and faculty, and sent it to the organizers for post-production. The show went live on YouTube June 4. Previously published in The Citadel, “The iPadContinue reading ““The iPad Wars” in City Tales 2020, a YouTube storytelling show”
AWP20 “More Than Me” Panel Review in Assay
Great write-up in Assay: A Journal of Nonfiction Studies about our panel at AWP. I didn’t know about it until a friend alerted me. Thank you, Stacy Murison and Heather Kim Lanier.
From a Failed Burglary to Hanukkah History
With these new additions, the Heliodorus stele places of the beginning of the Hanukkah story in its historical context.
Bird Sacrifices in Ancient Israel
Touring the caves of Tel Maresha in Beit Guvrin National Park (Israel), we came upon a columbarium – nesting boxes or perches for thousands of pigeons and doves.
Lane Igoudin | Author, Professor, Dad 