Becky Cerling Powers is the author of Laura's Children: The Hidden Story of a Chinese Orphanage, and the editor and compiler of My Roots Go Back to Loving and Other Stories from Year of the Family, a collection of faith-based family stories from El Pasoans. She is also a former parenting columnist for the El Paso Times, the Clinton Herald, and the El Paso Scene. Becky is a veteran homeschool grandma who helped start the first homeschool support group in El Paso in 1984 when Texas parents were battling for the freedom to homeschool their children. She and her husband Dennis live in Vinton, Texas. They have been married 50 years and have three adult children and 13 grandchildren. She blogs at www.beckypowers.com and can be reached at becky@beckypowers.com.