The baby is screaming again. My baby. I hoist her off the narrow hotel bed--again--and try to cradle her as I rock my torso back and forth in an uncomfortable straight-backed chair.
This baby does not cradle. She doesn't know how to cuddle, to be soothed in anyone's arms. She howls and arches away, squirms and flops, a sixteen-pound fish out of water. I'm not used to holding babies, and she's not used to be being held, but when I try to put her down, she wails. My arms feel chafed, raw, and my wrists ache from the hours of straining to hang on to her.
Huge...
The baby is screaming again. My baby. I hoist her off the narrow hotel bed--again--and try to cradle her as I rock my torso back and forth in an...
Even before Nancy McCabe and her daughter, Sophie, left for China, it was clear that, as the mother of an adopted child from China, McCabe would be seeing the country as a tourist while her daughter, who was seeing the place for the first time in her memory, was going home. Part travelogue, part memoir, "Crossing the Blue Willow Bridge" immerses readers in an absorbing and intimate exploration of place and its influence on the meaning of family.A sequel to "Meeting Sophie," which tells McCabe s story of adopting Sophie as a single woman, "Crossing the Blue Willow Bridge" picks up a decade...
Even before Nancy McCabe and her daughter, Sophie, left for China, it was clear that, as the mother of an adopted child from China, McCabe would be se...
A typical travel book takes readers along on a trip with the author, but a great travel book does much more than that, inviting readers along on a mental and spiritual journey as well. This distinction is what separates Nancy McCabe s "From Little Houses to Little Women" from the typical and allows it to take its place not only as a great travel book but also as a memoir about the children s books that have shaped all of our imaginations.
McCabe, who grew up in Kansas just a few hours from the Ingalls family s home in "Little House on the Prairie," always felt a deep connection with Laura...
A typical travel book takes readers along on a trip with the author, but a great travel book does much more than that, inviting readers along on a men...