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Virtual Storytelling Show!

Virtual Storytelling Show Tickets - $25! Hi Family! Come see my latest family storytelling show from the comfort of your home! It's on Thursday, October 20th at 7 PM, coming to you live from The Producers Club in NYC. We're so excited to performing onstage and online as well, and to be able to offer you a discount on virtual tickets. Get tickets now! The discount code is FAMILY (how appropriate is that?) Click on Tickets and enter the code FAMILY in the Enter promo code (in the upper left corner of the screen) and $75 will be deducted from the [...]

Mom’s Family: Lessons in Acceptance

Every Family's Got One Guest Writer -- Stacie Evans My grandmother, who I called Mom, had many children. Biologically, there were two, my dad and my uncle. But she was a foster parent for more than 40 years, starting when my father was a teenager. Many of her foster kids stayed in our lives long after they moved out of her house. They became family. The older ones became my aunts and uncles. The ones my age and younger became cousins. I think about what having a long-term foster placement meant for the kids who came to Mom’s house, and [...]