Adoption Continues
Friday, November 30th, 2007 Posted in Adoption | No Comments »Wow, one month of blogging about adoption. It seems like a long time ago when we first promised to blog for the month of November about adoption. I wanted to thank everybody who answered interview questions, who shared links, who ...
Adoption Interview Stories
Friday, November 30th, 2007 Posted in Adoption | No Comments »Yesterday I shared an adoption interview with Sheila Cina about her family's experience adopting their daughter, Irina, from Russia. After answering my e-mail questions she shared this story: Irina just came down and asked what I was doing on the computer. ...
Adoption Interviews: Sheila Cina
Thursday, November 29th, 2007 Posted in Adoption | No Comments »Sheila and Matt Cina live in Minneapolis and run an electric business. They have three children--Jack, 14, Kate, 10, and Irina, 7. Sheila and Matt adopted Irina from Russia when she was 5 years old. 1. What's your adoption experience been ...
Pick Your Words Honestly
Wednesday, November 28th, 2007 Posted in Business & Marketing, Writing | No Comments »I have a client that needed to cancel an event this week. But that's not how they're phrasing it. Instead of canceled the event was withdrawn. What does that even mean? I understand what they're up against. They don't want the negative ...
Goodwill Junk Art
Tuesday, November 27th, 2007 Posted in Art, Twin Cities | No Comments »This bird sits on University Avenue in St. Paul, beckoning pedestrians from the street up through the parking lot to a Goodwill store. It's called "Red Alert" and it's by Al Wadzinski. It just seems right--a sculpture made of junk in ...
Adoption Interviews: Erin Pratt
Monday, November 26th, 2007 Posted in Adoption | No Comments »Just as Abby and I were getting into the adoption process a couple who used to attend our church showed up again. Andy and Erin Pratt had moved to Duluth but were now back in the Twin Cities--and they had ...
Thankful to be Home
Sunday, November 25th, 2007 Posted in Adoption, Family, Vacation | No Comments »700 miles, 12 hours, 4 podcasts, 2 half-listened-to audio books, a lot of U2 and one puking incident. It's been a long day, but we're finally back in the Twin Cities after three days in Kansas (and two on the ...
We Sound Good
Thursday, November 22nd, 2007 Posted in Adoption | 1 Comment »We got a copy of our home study this week, and apparently we sound good.
Virtually Visiting Ethiopia
Tuesday, November 20th, 2007 Posted in Adoption | No Comments »One of the fun things about the wired world we live in is that you can get a taste for travel without actually traveling. It's only the slightest taste, but I've been enjoying pictures and videos from Ethiopia in anticipation ...
Death by Football
Tuesday, November 20th, 2007 Posted in Family | No Comments »My first cousin three times removed, Andrew J. Reeves, died in a football game in 1920 at the age of 24. No further details, just "Andrew killed in football game." No wonder I've never cared to play much football. (If you're trying ...
