Kay Bratt's Blog, page 44

So there, Spina Bifida! Take that!

So there, Spina Bifida! Take that!


Shake it Off Spina Bifida

Our Take That Spina Bifida! online community got all of these clips together. Thanks to Colleen Payne for having the idea to Shake it Off for awareness month...

I sure remember days like this when we'd travel to Shanghai for a day of shoppin...

I sure remember days like this when we'd travel to Shanghai for a day of shopping or medical visits, and come home and blow black from our noses for days. Not fun.

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Shanghai Daily

The National Meteorological Center (NMC) will extend a yellow alert on Thursday for severe smog and air pollution shrouding China's northern regions on Wednesday.Widespread #smog has affected a large part of north China as well as northwest China's Shaanxi Province since Wednesday, with air conditions in northern Chinese cities including Beijing and Tianjin severely downgraded.To read more, click the link below:http://www.shanghaidaily.com/national/Alert-continues-for-severe-north-China-smog/shdaily.shtml

I laughed. I cried. Love Dr. Pol!

I laughed. I cried. Love Dr. Pol!

★★★LAST CHANCE!★★★ This giveaway ends in 13 hours so you still have time to get...

★★★LAST CHANCE!★★★ This giveaway ends in 13 hours so you still have time to get your name in! Giving signed paperback copies of all four books in the series!


Book Giveaway: The Scavengers Daughters Series
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We are giving away one paperback set of the TALES OF THE SCAVENGER'S DAUGHTERS by Kay Bratt, a saga set in the period directly after China's Cultural Revolution. Fans of Lisa See and Amy Tan will enjoy Kay Bratt's new series, The Tales of the Scavenger's Daughters. Benfu survived torture and impris…

Niamh (Nina) is looking for her forever family. And I agree, she's adorable.

Niamh (Nina) is looking for her forever family. And I agree, she's adorable.


We're Waiting for Families!
Niamh (pronounced "Neeve") is eight years old and is the resident character of our Dingyuan foster care program. This clever girl has Down Syndrome and may not speak a lot yet but understands plenty! You will not want to miss the adorable new photos of little Niamh in our new blog. http://bit.ly/1CNLON6

Niamh has an adoption assistance grant on Reece's Rainbow (where she is known as "Nina"). Please help us spread the word that she is still waiting to be matched with a forever family!
Children in LWB programs who are waiting for families. Please contact our Adoption Advocacy Team at adoption@lwbmail.com for more information!

Horrifying photo, I know. When you've lived in as many houses as I have, (27 a...

Horrifying photo, I know.

When you've lived in as many houses as I have, (27 at my last count) you start to remember each one by some small identifying detail and not much else. The house before this one, just a rental between house closings, was a nice home in a quiet subdivision. But it had one big issue....WOLF SPIDERS! They stayed mostly in the basement but a few of them made it upstairs and also into the foyer. Even after a few professional insecticide sprays, I was terrified in that house and had many a stare down with one of the ugly creatures as we passed in the hall. We've called it the Spider House ever since and I even wrote a 'Spider Room' into one of my novels I was working on there.

What's something memorable about a house you lived in before? Creatures? Strange neighbors? Bad conditions? Barking dogs?

So thrilled to see one of my novels reviewed in Asiance Magazine! Link credit t...

So thrilled to see one of my novels reviewed in Asiance Magazine! Link credit to: Asiance Magazine; Connecting Asian American women to the world.


Chasing China: A Daughter's Quest For Truth | Asiance Magazine
www.asiancemagazine.com
China’s “one child” policy has led to the overseas adoption of many Chinese girls. As young women, they often seek to find their birth parents or at least try to learn more about the circumstances of their birth, their separation or relinquishment or abandonment, and their subsequent adoption.

Crackdown on Essential Oils. It's about time! (please read to the end to see ton...

Crackdown on Essential Oils. It's about time! (please read to the end to see tongue planted firmly in cheek)



Essential Oils: Get the Essential Information the FDA Wants You to Know
thinkingmomsrevolution.com
Thank heavens that the FDA has finally started cracking down on this so-called 'natural medicine' that people have been so dangerously using in their homes, with their families and even their children. Essential Oils (EOs) could perhaps be the most dangerous unapproved health intervention ever to fa…

What really scares Beijing about the Hong Kong protestssp...

What really scares Beijing about the Hong Kong protests
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Beijing There’s a nondescript building tucked away near my house, about the size of a college dormitory. Sometimes I wave from my roof to the scrawny boys having a smoke…

Amazing and at the same time, makes me feel emotional.

Amazing and at the same time, makes me feel emotional.


Forty Portraits in Forty Years
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The Brown sisters have been photographed every year since 1975. The latest image in the series is published here for the first time.