In “Humpty Dumpty”, part of a 1902 Mother Goose story book by William Wallace Denslow, the verse says that after his “great fall”,
“All the king’s horses and all the king’s men
Couldn’t put Humpty together again.”
I learned that verse as a child and the words still roll effortlessly and rhythmically off the tongue. Although I […]
I grew up in a family of 4 kids which was a good round number for board games, a favorite of which was Life. I always enjoyed picking out my piece and then moving it along the board…except that my older brother tended to win. Little did I know that there were a number […]
At the end of the school year, my daughter looked beautiful, dressed for her senior prom. Her long waist-length black hair was pulled back simply from her face and flowed down her back in long cascading waves thanks to her friend’s efforts with a curling iron on her straight locks. Her off-white dress was […]
It has been some months since I have posted. Various topics have rattled around in my head however they have failed to flow through my fingers to my computer keyboard.
It is somewhat challenging to pick up again however there is a restless creative side of me that is happiest when I am writing regularly. […]
A friend and I took my 15 month old granddaughter to a portrait/photo session at a nearby baby store. The friend…a young woman…used to work in the baby store, knew the photographer and introduced me as the “birth mother’s mom” of my granddaughter. It was the first that I had thought about that terminology […]
I am pretty sure that I have a chip on my shoulder when it comes to being an adoptive mom. I have read books and articles from the viewpoint of the adult adoptee and have over the years tried to use that understanding to view our family from the perspective of my two adopted […]
I completely understand the mother duck in the picture. I imagine her saying, “Now children, this is a road. Roads can be very dangerous and I want to protect you. I have crossed this road many times in complete safety as I know what pitfalls to avoid. I would like you to line up […]
I thought that it had been two weeks since I last blogged but see that it has been three. These last weeks have been an adjustment to a different sort of “normal” since bringing our son home from Wilderness.
The challenging part of the adjustment to having my son home is the desire I still […]
As I mentioned in my last blog, we are bringing my youngest son, soon to be 18, home from a wilderness program in a couple of days. Having sent my older daughter several years ago to a mental health residential treatment program and seeing her slide immediately back into old behaviors upon returning home, […]
With the Christmas holidays and out of town trips, I have missed a few weeks of blogging. We spent Christmas with all but one of my siblings (and their families) at the home of my widowed mother. She is 91 now, in good spirits however her body is failing after 5 years of fighting […]
