I am visiting my daughter and her family this week so I’m sharing a post from last year at this time with you today. It has been another good writing weekend for me. I’m getting close to finishing the third draft of Two Hearts, One Baby: An Adoption Memoir and I want to be finished this draft in…
Month: June 2011
A New Outfit
You know how good it feels when you are wearing a brand new outfit that fits just right and is a color that flatters you? I think that’s how our home is feeling right how. The rain finally stopped long enough for the painter to finish – it was a busy weekend around here as…
The Party’s Over
Gerry and I went to bed around 10:00 last night. We had enjoyed a good day; the sun shone in the afternoon and we got a lot of things done in the yard. We were ready for a good sleep. Typically, I read and he did some Sudoko before we turned out the light and…
Arms of Adoption – Birth Day
The thought slipped from my unconscious to my conscious mind for the first time when I was almost fifty-years-old and in the process of falling in love. I was sitting in a chair holding my newborn granddaughter while the nurses fussed around and tended to her mom — my daughter. My heart was so full…
It’s Not Too Late
Do you have regrets about any choices you have made in your life? Yes, me too. I suspect there are few of us who haven’t gone down a path that seemed right at the time; only later we realized it wasn’t the right one for us. Have you ever made a choice by not making a choice?…