Karen Valby

Karen Valby is the author of Welcome to Utopia: Notes from a Small Town. Her work has appeared in Entertainment Weekly, Fast Company, Real Simple, and O magazine. She lives in Austin with her husband and their two daughters.

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5 Things One Mom Wishes She'd Been Told Before Adopting her Black Son

Alex Landau’s mother Patsy Hathaway believed that love was enough when it came to raising her adopted black son—until he was beaten up by Denver police in a routine traffic stop. Landau says he was...

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