Saturday, October 3, 2026

Time for a Life Update!

As you can see, Claudia is in fine form these days. She's rocking 83 yrs old and is quick to tell any/every one that she looks half her age and acts like it, too. I can confirm she is living free, wild, and listens to no one who is trying to put limits on her. She is happy in her adult group home and has been busy decorating her bedroom to her taste. In other BIGGIE news, this happened:
https://www.amazon.com/Breaking-Families-Making-Adoption-Welfare/dp/1469694689/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0 The author, Dr. Mical Raz contacted me to let me know she used our family story in her new textbook. Since it is an academic book, it reads like a proper research paper with footnotes and an index. We are on pages 23-24 of her impressive book. I am thrilled that my dream of having our story be told in a textbook (so future generations will do better) has come true! And of course, if you want to read our story straight from my fingers to your eyeballs, you can find my book online pretty much anywhere.
Here's one link to it: https://www.amazon.com/Ezra-Hadassah-Portrait-American-Royalty/dp/149431116X/ref=monarch_sidesheet_title I'm still in shock that a super smart professor at a big university found my book and found value in including it in her work. That is so unbelievablely cool. I love making the world a tiny bit better in any way I can. Yay us!