September 9, 2009.
Racial Bias Exits: Can We Train Cops to Deal with it? 
The killing of Oscar Grant raised many questions. In the progressive, multi-cultural Bay Area, why weren't BART police trained to consider how their own racial bias might be influencing their perception of danger?
East Bay Express
June 2009
Family Values - Berkeley Activist Barbara Lubin Shares the Wealth - and the Love with the Children of the Middle East
I have been inspired by the work of the Middle East Children's Alliance and wanted to know what keeps its co-founder, Barbara Lubin, going strong after all these years. Check out their work at www.mecaforpeace.org
The Monthly
Summer 2009
How One Real Woman Really Feels About Aging
Prompted by a visit to Target's dressing room with my teenage daughter. Well, actually, prompted by getting older and acquiring a bit of vanity somewhere along the way.
San Francisco Writer's Conference Anthology 2009: Building Bridges to Better Tomorrows
January 2008
Book Review of Swimming Up the Sun
I met Nicole Burton at an AAC conference and was impressed by her and her wonderful writing. Check out more of her work including her prolific playwriting at: http://nicolejburton.com/
The Decree: Newsletter of the American Adoption Congress
Fall 2007
Book Review of Post-Adoption Blues by Karen J. Foli Ph.D and John R. Thompson, MD
The adoption process is wrought with many emotional challenges and for some adoptive parents, it can be hard even after a child arrives.
PACT Press
May 14, 2004
The Dead Have A Right to be Seen
This poem about the war in Iraq was created out of anger, sadness and a deep sense of the horror of the siege against Fallujah.
The Berkeley Daily Planet
Summer 1999
To My Daughter
A letter to my daughter telling her the story of her adoption and my feelings about her birth mother.
In The Life I Now Lead; published by Neighborhood Moms
Audio:
Childhood Matters: Adoption
January 10, 2009
Children thrive when they are free to grow up in safe and enduring family environments. For many children, adoption makes this possible. But adopted children face particular challenges including feelings of abandonment, wondering about their biological family, and grappling with their identity. Join Rona and guests as they discuss the needs of adoptive children.
Guests: Micky Duxbry, MFT, a therapist who specializes in adoption issues, and the author of Making Room in Our Hearts: Keeping Family Ties Through Open Adoption Susan Ito, Camp Coordinator at PACT, an adoption alliance as well as editor of the anthology A Ghost at Heart's Edge: Stories and Poems of Adoption.
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Childhood Matters: Adoption
November 26, 2006
Children thrive when they are free to grow up in safe and enduring family environments and for many children, adoption makes this possible. Guests: Micky Duxbury, MFT, author of Making Room in Our Hearts, and Lois Rutten, MSW, Child Welfare Division Manager for Children & Family Services of Contra Costa County.
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Media:
Sharing Challenges of Open Adoption
Santa Rosa Press Democrat
March 2, 2007
www.pressdemocrat.com/article/20070302/NEWS/703020406
Adoption By the Book
Mother Who Gave Up Son Years Ago Tells Her Story of Reconciliation, Acceptance
The Hutchinson News