Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction
1.ON LOVE
A Secret Promise Kept
A Sandpiper to Bring You Joy
The Most Caring Child
Information Please
Two Nickels and Five Pennies
The Ice Cream Gorl See
The Horai Box
Manuel Garcia
A Taste of Freedom
Compassion Is in the Eyes
Warm in Your heart
An Act of Kindness
Two Families
Guests in the Night
Appointment with Love
Whoever finds this,I Love you !
An Aternoon in the Park
The Little Boy and the Old Man
What's Really Important
Not a One !
Teddy Bear
2.ON PARENTING
Paco,Come Home
Tommy's Essay
Barney
Almie Rose
Why I Wear a Plastic Dinosaur
The coolest Dad in the Universe
Workin'Man
It's How You Play the Game that counts
No charge
Recognize Your Winners
Courage of the heart
Legacy of an Adopted Child
What It Means to Be Adopted
Class Reunion
The Gift
3.ON TEACHING AND LEARNING
4.ON DEATH AND DYING
5.A MATTER OF PERSPECTIVE
6.A MATTER OF ATTITUDE
7.OVERCOMING OBSATACLES
8.ECLECTIC WISDOM