For background information about this post, please see the previous post. In a nutshell, I taught the Publications class, which is responsible for the student newspaper, at my son’s school. The staff would not allow the students to publish this article in the student newspaper. The girls wanted to send it to the “real newspaper,” … Continue reading »
Background and Context for the Next Post
The next post is going to be a little bit different. It requires some backstory, especially if your child doesn’t attend the same school as Jackson. To make one long story short, one of the Elementary teachers at Jackson’s school is on administrative leave while being investigated for abuse. The family of the child whom … Continue reading »
My Connection to Spock
I thought I had written this story on my old LiveJournal blog, but I can’t find it. Seeing as how Star Trek: Into Darkness came out last week, and Max and I are going to see it this week, I thought it might be a timely story. While at CMU, I was a Computing Skills … Continue reading »
Open Adoption Blog Hop #4: Books
The Open Adoption Bloggers thought it might be fun to also get to know one another in a more lighthearted way through a good old-fashioned blog hop! Each blogger answers a question, and we post our links. We then comment on at least three other people’s blogs. Fun! What was the last book you read? The … Continue reading »
Oh For God’s Sake People!
I’m only going to say this once: An apostrophe s (‘s) is possessive. An s or es is plural. An s or es apostrophe (s’ or es’) is plural possessive. SO Some mothers like to celebrate Mother‘s Day. NOT Some mother‘s like to celebrate Mother’s Day. It would also be acceptable to call Mother‘s Day, … Continue reading »
Open Adoption Roundtable #47: Restarting a Stalled Relationship
The Open Adoption Roundtable is a series of occasional writing prompts about open adoption. It’s designed to showcase of the diversity of thought and experience in the open adoption community. We’re up to Open Adoption Roundtable #47. Have you experienced a stalled open adoption relationship? Have you ever been the one who pulled away? Tell us about that. … Continue reading »
Open Adoption and Mother’s Day
There is a thread on the Adoptive Families community forum titled, “Open adoption and Mother’s Day.” An adoptive mother of a 7-month old is going to visit with her daughter’s birthmother the day before Mother’s Day. The baby’s bmom wants to visit the baby on Mother’s Day. The amom wants to spend her first Mother’s … Continue reading »
Liberal Dissonance, Or Is It Ever Acceptable to Shave Religious Symbols Into One’s Pubic Hair?
Last night, my friend Krista brought an interesting news item from our alma mater to my attention. It seems that, during a parade, a Carnegie Mellon student dressed up as the Pope and handed out condoms. If that were the end of the story, then I’d probably say, “Yes, I can see how that’s offensive, … Continue reading »
Cassie is 18-Months Old!
Our darling Cassie is 18-months old. That’s 1-1/2 years! Time goes by so fast! She’s wearing her gFleur outfit, which I’m actually going to write about separately, because I am insane. She’s hitting most of her milestones. “Runs stiffly and falls often.” She’s a great walker and has even started running. How good she is … Continue reading »
My Sassy Cat
I was going to write a post about Cassie being 18-months old now, but that will have to wait. Last night (or early this morning, really) my Sassy cat died. Sassy was about 17. We didn’t know exactly how old she was, because we were her third humans. Her first human apparently adopted her, declawed … Continue reading »
