I apologize for my long, unplanned absence.  I have heard it is bad blogging etiquette to just drop off the face of the earth with no explanation. It makes sense with the high rate of abandoned blogs and the fact that you may have reserved real estate for me on your home page.  I hope [...]

Did anyone have a good year last year?  It seems to be consensus among everyone that I know that it was the worst year ever. Just about everyone in my community is thinking “Thank God It’s Over”!
I went to a zine reading the other night by my friend artnoose.  Ker-bloom! #81 was actually sub-titled Artnoose [...]

I had a new client recently that had experienced the tragic loss of a baby. At 24 weeks of pregnancy, just a few weeks before viability of the fetus, she experienced a life threatening illness that resulted in the emergency abortion/delivery of the baby. Not only did I relate to her loss, but [...]

I have found myself skirting the edge of a mild depression. Life has been growing and filling up over the last 6 months (almost to the point of overfilling!), but also holding a void.  We have been in a place of limbo, grief recovery and anticipation.
We just passed the one year anniversary of having matched, [...]

In a sense, T-7 prepared us for getting an infant. She taught us that parenting a baby could not possibly be any harder than parenting her.  We were often sleepless, we felt the shock of losing our own individuality and freedom.  Additionally, dealt with tantrums of a 2 year-old in a 7 year-old body. I [...]

I have been going through a bit of a gluttonous stage lately.  For me this translates into starting new projects that I am excited about, planning trips and spending money on pampering things.  It is hard for me to go to these decadent places without harboring some guilt.  It feels good, but I am not [...]

This is a fabulous book that dissects the use of television and video media by children ages 0-5.  Guernsey holds equally the voice of a diligent researcher, looking at existing scientific evidence, and of a concerned parent. It calls to question assumptions that have been made.
On one side, in 1999 the American Academy of Pediatrics [...]

In our foster parent training, we learned that all kids in foster care are special needs.  By virtue of whatever circumstances removed them from their family and brought them into “the system” puts them into a more vulnerable position in our society.  CPS first looks for a relative or friend to take the child so [...]

I am really into intimacy.  I have plenty of friends that I have casual friends with that I see around, but my close friends are people that I can say anything to. And they can say anything to me.  And we do. I love to be up in people’s business and well, they don’t really [...]

J- and I have been differentiating “moving on” and “moving forward”. When we think about moving on, we think of recovery and coming back to ourselves.  We think of just taking emotional space to recover from a really hard period of life.  Not only are we resting and being still, but we are also taking [...]