This post has languished in drafts for a while. I'd work on it, the words wouldn't flow or feel timely, I'd save the snippet I'd crafted hoping eventually I'd feel a sense of urgency to complete it. I'd resurrect the draft when well-meaning friends remarked they don't think of the Child as adopted because they don't see color. I'd tweak some sentences when I'd recall the very recent past ... Continue Reading
Before you go out on New Years Eve…
I'm wearing my PARTY SHOES! Stop and consider, again, how you will introduce your friends to each other. Before I go out this New Years Eve I'm pausing and considering precisely how *I* want to be introduced. In the most wonderful of ways, the words we choose to define others impact the way they view themselves. It doesn't interest me what you do for a living... ... Continue Reading