The adoption writers at Grown In My Heart are having a poetry carnival this week. It’s been many years since I wrote poetry so I decided to participate by using one that I wrote when I was a teenager and posted recently on my Arms of Adoption blog. I Was Adopted I was adopted when…
Month: May 2010
Drive-Thru Rage
It is hard to believe it’s been one week since I updated my blog. I am heading back home today after an unexpected trip to Canada to help my daughter as she has battled a health issue. I’m greateful to have been able to come and help her with caring for my granddaughter and everything else that young…
Good News from Illinois
“It’s a basic human right to be able to access one’s birth records.” These words were spoken by adoptee and Chicago Democratic Representative Sara Feigenholtz who has pushed for open adoption records for years. Today Illinois Governor Pat Quinn today signed into law a measure allowing people who were adopted as children to access their birth records…
Cacophony
Cacophony. Don’t you love that word? It sounds just like what it is, which is, according to dictionary.com, a “harsh discordance of sound”. I confess that the cacophony of my daily life wears me out and the older I get the less I can bear the constant noise that surrounds me as I go about my daily…
Time Out
It’s hard to imagine that this sweet little girl looking up at you could behave any differently from what that little innocent face portrays, isn’t it? It’s true she is the sweetest little sixteen-month old girl on the planet, but according to her mom she’s quickly closing in on what they call the “terrible twos” and…