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Almost Home
I know I've been gone for ages and ages. I look at Kaleb's photos in my last post, realizing it has been almost a year; since losing him, since a cancer scare with my son, since losing my birthmom. It was a difficult year and, to tell you the tru...
Just an Ordinary Saturday
It was just an ordinary Saturday, the house slowly coming to life, the smell of freshly brewed coffee wafting down the hallway, prying me from sleep; my son barging into the room to share the day’s plans. Like almost every Saturday, my son was w...
Bury My Lovely
“Bury My Lovely,” by October Project was finally posted on YouTube a while back – and I was thrilled to find it. I scrolled through the comments. Many people say it is about child abuse, genealogy, unearthing family secrets and ghosts of the pa...
An Award!
The assignment was simple. My fourth-grade classmates and I studied poetry and were instructed to create a book of poems, scrawled in chunky child’s printing between the thick, blue lines of wide-ruled paper, sandwiched between covers of mishapingl...
It's . . .
BENIGN ! ! ! !We got the results back today and Ben's tumor is benign. No more surgeries. No radiation. No cancer. The Kid is very relieved and so is Mom.Thanks to everyone for your wishes and prayers these long last couple of weeks - and to all thos...
No Words
In this life I’ve lived, full of abandonment and conditional love; through foster homes and bus passes to relatives, I’ve known things capable of taking the color out of life. I’ve known abuse and molestation. I’ve known words that sting hard...
