I just added Wordpress Stats to my toolbag on this blog. I needed to upgrade my site and I had been putting it off . I was running up against technical blocks that I just couldn’t bring myself to face.  Finally, I did it in one fell swoop, staying up until 2am (which for me [...]

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 [...]

Previews for this movie had me very excited about the premise. A baby is bred to be a donor for her sister, who is dying of cancer. When she becomes a teenager, she is tired of it and sues her parents to gain the rights to her own body. The book caught [...]

During the first few days after the girls had moved out, I felt as if I were recovering from a car accident.  I was in a sort of shock, where I knew what had happened was absolutely horrible and sad, but there was also an insane humor about it.  Like, can you believe that we [...]

I just wanted to drop a note to encourage you to check out a new group book review blog.  It has no particular focus that I can tell, although probably most of us are serious about our reading and writing and fall somewhere between progressive and anarchists on the political spectrum.  In the long run, [...]

The Mistress’s daughter is the riveting memoir of A.M. Homes and her relationship with her birth parents. The story begins when, at age 31, she goes home for Christmas and her mother tells her that someone is looking for her.
“After a lifetime spent in a virtual witness-protection program, I’ve been exposed. I get up knowing [...]

When we disrupted our adoption with the girls, we set it as a goal to support other parents and hang out with kids as much as possible.  We understand how valuable it is to give parents a break from their kids and we seek to better understand child development and “normal” child behavior at different [...]