I recently watched Al Gore’s documentary, An Inconvenient Truth.  I didn’t learn anything new since I had already studied this stuff in college.  15 years later, it is totally mainstream.  Although I believed it all along, the fact that it has become more widely accepted has still made it feel bigger to me, more impending, […]

We went into the interviews with our newly found agency with an innocent honesty. We hadn’t really ever been questioned or judged, we were used to being viewed as a stable couple and ideal parents.  This confidence led us to say some things without thinking and led the agency to question us more deeply.
The social […]

Once we had chosen the right method of adoption, we still had another decision to make.  Did we want to use an agency or become foster parents with Alameda County.  We still had a lot to learn about the process involved with each direction, and how each track affected the amount of support that we […]

We knew that there were many ways to adopt kids, although we probably couldn’t have named or defined the methods.  We also didn’t know that the rules of how adoptions happen vary by state and country or that the cost varies considerably and that each method has pros and cons. 
I found the Complete Adoption Book at […]

Over the years, I have participated in many collective working and living projects.  Several years ago, I was recruited by a group called the Matchbook Learning Project. We sponsored classes for adults in the anarchist community.  The vision was a way to keep people in community in times of life that it is harder to […]