We drove to Gulf Shores and stayed at a friend’s beach house this weekend near Ft. Morgan and Dauphin Island. We got up Saturday morning to white sand beaches and perfect beach combing weather. I took a bunch of books to read and ended up reading the one that had just arrived called “Outsiders Within: Writing on Transracial Adoption.” The essays were giving voice to Korean, Vietnamese, Chinese, Black and mix raced adopted children. The…
Every year on New Year’s eve they build a huge bonfire on Orleans Avenue – now suddenly the city thinks they are unsafe. Please, please, sign this petition to save the bonfires and tell the city to focus on the crime – the crime, you get it? – not the bonfires.
December has been a crazy month – a whole team of hurry up and wait and go go go and collapse. But amidst all of this nuttiness, joy runneth over. From having our first interview for adoption, to immediately having a successful second one. To knowing the moment I walked in the room that something was happening with this woman I had never met to walking out aware of my life enlarging in ways I…
Today was quite an amazing day! We met a woman who chose us to be babymamas! To say that we are so excited we are walking on air would be an understatement.
I’m tired of rushing through friends’ visits – yesterday I saw my friend who has had a lot of heart ache and our time together was rushed and reduced to soundbytes. Today I wanted to thank two friends who helped me during my party and instead I was whisked away by demands elsewhere. Meanwhile, a box arrived with a holiday gift from a friend this evening. In it was a calendar and each month held…
We’ve gone from snow to 79° now – humid too – I had to open the door to my office because it was getting hot in here and then before I knew it the buck moths that have been flying around tried to make their way in. They’re beautiful but annoying as hell.
Lying in bed between 12 and 5AM wide awake and dosed up on Advil Cold and Sinus I thought about all the things that lie front of me and all the things that went before. Given everything I know now about me, about life, about the people I have interacted with over the years – I’d say it’s impossible to believe I would have done anything different given hindsight. Well maybe a few things. But…