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Love Most Profound

I had to practice last night for singing at church tomorrow. So, I sat at the piano to pick out they key and figure out how to play John Lennon’s “Imagine.” Key of F (Lennon sings it in C). It’s a pretty simple song, so, I hoped that I could wing it since it was […]

The Impotence of Worry

I have joined a Yahoo! group for US families adopting from Ethiopia. My reasons are to gather information from folks about their experiences. I’ve gleaned a few hard useful facts that will help us ease our child’s journey (when that moment arrives), but for the most part, this group appears dedicated to assuaging the worries […]

Speech, Language, Development, Biology, and Why This World Makes No Sense

My son’s psychiatrist is going out of business (I guess you have to say “closing her practice”) because she can get paid only 37% of the time from the insurance companies. She is a developmental pediatrician AND a child psychiatrist so charges health insurance as a primary care physician. I like that mental health treatment […]

Au Revoir and Stuff

The time has come to close up this blog. I began blogging with a desire to reveal what is most personal to me (not dumb personal, like a drunk facebook picture, but emotionally genuine personal). As with my songwriting, I have always tried to focus my blog on revealing that which others have pain acknowledging. […]

My Miracle Boy

We’ve finally unpacked all the pictures. They’ve been sitting in boxes, and now most of them are hung up on the wall. While we were unpacking them, Blake was asking all kinds of questions about who everyone was. He’s always trying to piece together what our family looks like.
He knows that my parents are […]

Sweet Moments

Blake and Trixie. 1/20/08.
 
Blake and me, eating pears. 1/20/08.
 

A Mark in Time

Tomorrow, my son Blake goes for his first day of Kindergarten. We have spent the last few days together — an unusual occurrence since he’s been in day care. I wanted him to leave day care for a bit so that he could have some transition time, and I could drink in all of […]

Little Sister/Big Sister

Blake and I went to the Short Pump Mall last week. He likes to go there to ride the train, and to play in the food court. He always meets new kids when we go there. This time, we saw two tweens playing with their respective little sisters. On the way home, Blake was silent, […]

Blake’s Song

I would never presume to understand the depth of Blake’s experience of having been adopted. I see his questions unfold day to day, his puzzlement over who is Jenny (his birthmother) vs. who is me. I got the “how does a baby get in your belly?” question in the car the other day. This is […]

“Family Balancing”

Every once in a while, I hurt myself on purpose by looking up current fertility treatment technology to see if things have progressed to a point where it’s relevant for most families. Alas, such services are still in the category of boutique medicine, and, it would appear, that rather than advance the technology to the […]