Mothers Who Raise Children from Another Mother

If you knew then what you know now, would you still have done it?   A church friend posed this to me about a year ago.  She was referring to our experience in taking in two homeless boys in the summer of 2013.  I cannot recall now what was going on at the time with...
College Dreams and other Fallacies

College Dreams and other Fallacies

We have a mess in this country.  Actually, we have several messes but the one I want to talk about today is the distorted view we have of higher education.  As a country we have perpetuated the idea through our comments, our expectations, our posts, and our media that...

Retreat or Advance?

I know I have not posted for a while and shame on me.  I took time off to help my parents (see Meat in the Sandwich) and then I went on vacation with my hubby and two of my sons.  At the end of that week, while they trekked to the top of Mt. Antero, I retreated to a...

How “To Kill A Mockingbird” Changed My Life

I am anxiously awaiting the release of Harper Lee’s “other book” (virtually a mystery itself…read here) , “Go Set, A Watchman” (pre-order here) on July 14.  My daughter, Natalie, has been sending me reminders for some time in an...

Heredity or Environment?

“I have looked at our pics and it is clear we r related.” This text message from Celia reminded me of the first time I contacted her sister, my birth mom.  I wrote her telling her about myself, my view on adoption, (via a newspaper clipping I had written...