Jeff Seitzer teaches at Roosevelt University in Chicago, where he won an award for adjunct teaching in the humanities in 2018. He is a regular contributor to The CMTA Report and essays of his have appeared in the Omaha World-Herald, The Brevity Nonfiction Blog, Hippocampus, The Write Launch, The Good Men Project, and Pulse Magazine. He has recently completed a memoir about his experiences as a stay-at-home parent.

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Thank You, Bàba

- September 22, 2020 - , , , ,

Thank You, Bàba

- September 22, 2020 - , , , ,

Six months after she came home to us, our daughter stopped speaking. As I searched for clues as to her sudden silence, I became profoundly grateful to her Chinese foster father, a man I had never met, for teaching me a valuable lesson about selfless love.

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