My mom’s spirit soared up to heaven in the early morning hours this past Sunday, October 25th. As my sister and I sat in the hospice room and watched her take her last breath, in my mind’s eye I could picture an angel coming down to escort my mom to eternity.
When I last wrote […]
Tomorrow, the day after Labor Day, may be a day my daughter remembers forever as the day her life painfully, irretrievably altered. Or not. My daughter has a court date tomorrow. As this is her third court case, I expect that the consequences this time could be severe. On the other hand, she has […]
The photo above, taken by Children’s photographer Anna Bricova, beautifully captures the precious innocence of a newborn baby and the delightful pink gauzy anticipation first time parents have of looking ahead to raising their new daughter, whether through birth or by adoption. I remember gazing in wonder at my 4 month old daughter as […]
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 […]
