Welcome

Welcome, new readers from Parenting magazine, Adoptive Families magazine,  BlogHer, ICLW and elsewhere. Here is a digest page of some of my favorite posts. You may also see other articles favorited by my readers.

Pull up a post and stay awhile, and let me know you were here — I’d like to get to know you, too.

 

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Vignettes

Double feature: Date Night mishaps.

The night my house broke up with me: A night with toddlers locked in my own personal a panic room.

*thisclose*: my near-death experience, which went unnoticed by everyone else.

You’re so vain. I bet you think this post is about you: the delusions of a former boyfriend.

If wishes were horses: and maybe they are.

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Love

Mom badge: I earned it. Holy crap, did I earn it.

Weddding invitation: a hint to the life we’d have together

The Brady Crunch: a fun title for a cursed time.

My one-and-only pregnancy photo: Paulie, me and Sunny D. Funny (in a take-back-the-infertility kind of way) because I was never really pregnant.

Family of origin of the species: this will explain a lot.

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Adoption

What does “‘real” mean? My daughter utters those dreaded words.

“What if I weren’t adopted?” I abide with my daughter while she wonders.

Hotel Rwanda and open adoption parenting: response to reader comments.

Bloom where you’re planted: tribute to my stubborn children.

On DNA: Nature? or Nurture?

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Infertility, freedom, spirituality

The View on Clomid: Melissa, Pamela Jeanne and I on an infertility panel at BlogHer08.

Core beliefs: a foray into political blogging, favorited because of the ensuing discussion.

My spiritual yin and my political yang: How I came to be a New-Age Libertarian.

How to live a charmed life: someone gifted me with this, and now I pass it on.

Grant us peace: vlogging with my sisters. Take 23.

Images: Health Jockey, WriteMindOpenHeart, JewelBasket.com