Dear Son
Dear Son- If anyone ever tells you that life is linear and your plans always work out perfectly, don’t listen to them. If anyone ever tells you this about adoption […]
Things Currently Depending on Me for Survival
1. This little bag of bones. I routinely throw the ball for her and initiate games of ”Haunted House”, where I turn all the lights off and then jump out […]
Fight the Pharisee: Woe Intro
I was a bit of a goody two shoes in high school. I really wanted my teachers to like me and, for the most part, they did (except for that […]
In Defense of Homemade Deodorant
I’ve been trying to document our gradual descent into hippiedom, what with the knitting and the gardening and the natural dyes and the giant beard (Alex’s of course). We took another plunge […]
One Year
It’s been almost one year since we announced our adoption publicly on this blog. That’s been a year full of home studies and letters from doctors and letters from accountants […]
This Cowlick Just Got Serious, Y’all
Whenever I go to get my hair cut, people come from miles to look at the perfect condition of my hair. “Where are all the split ends?”, they cry! “How […]
Dear Daughter: I’ve Known for a Long Time
Dear daughter- I got a package in the mail today from Nanny (my maternal grandmother). I never know if she’ll send me underwear after I blog that mine mysteriously went […]
