Toddler Adoption: Not Thrilled to be Adopted
Saturday, May 31st, 2008 Posted in Adoption | No Comments »I've been trying to do more adoption reading lately and Toddler Adoption: The Weaver's Craft has been my book. It's not likely we'll be placed with a toddler, but our child will eventually be a toddler, so issues of toddler ...
Disconnected
Friday, May 30th, 2008 Posted in Blogging | No Comments »My blogging of late has felt a bit disconnected. Like I'm not fully communicating what I want to say, or at least not communicating it well. Maybe it's more that I'm blogging just to get the ideas out and written ...
Living Simply
Friday, May 30th, 2008 Posted in Society | No Comments »Shaun Groves has been blogging about simplicity lately, talking about why to live simply and things they've done to live simply. It's encouraging because I've had similar thoughts rolling around in my head lately (though haven't taken a lot of ...
Transracial Adoption in Minneapolis
Thursday, May 29th, 2008 Posted in Adoption | 4 Comments »Yesterday NPR interviewed Dorothy Bode, who has six adopted children in her transracial family and blogs about the accompanying issues and questions. The family moved from the white suburbs to the multi-racial inner-city to better accommodate their transracial family. And as ...
Minnesota: The Muslim Frontline
Wednesday, May 28th, 2008 Posted in Society, World News | 3 Comments »Is it me, or is Minnesota some kind of flashpoint for Muslim conflict? There were the Muslim taxi drivers refusing to carry alcohol, there were the six Muslim imams booted off a U.S. Airways flight, there was the charter school ...
Vietnam & Guatemala Adoptions Shut Down
Wednesday, May 28th, 2008 Posted in Adoption | 5 Comments »Stories like this aren't what you want to hear when you're about to adopt. Both Vietnam and Guatemala have halted all foreign adoptions (though the U.S. stopped Guatemala adoptions after April 1, so it's not clear how new this news ...
Adoption is Closer Than We Think
Wednesday, May 28th, 2008 Posted in Adoption | 2 Comments »Nine months is a long time to wait for a baby. But at least you know how long the wait will be. With adoption it's a bit trickier. In December we were told six to nine months. Of course things ...
Twitter, Moving, History & Art
Tuesday, May 27th, 2008 Posted in Art, Blogging, Domicile, Family, History | No Comments »Blogging has definitely slowed lately. I blame Twitter—I've been enjoying its strength as a place to make temporary, pithy comments that don't require much time or thought investment. Maybe that says something about how valuable/worthless my Twitter posts are, though ...
Prince Caspian: The Book vs. The Movie
Wednesday, May 21st, 2008 Posted in Books, Movies | 2 Comments »On Saturday night I saw the movie Prince Caspian and yesterday I finished rereading the book. Much like the movie version of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, I felt like Prince Caspian the movie was so-so. After Peter ...
Islamic Charter School Flap is Ridiculous
Tuesday, May 20th, 2008 Posted in Society | No Comments »A little more than a month ago I wrote about a local Twin Cities columnist up in arms about a charter school. Katherine Kersten claimed the school, Tarek ibn Ziyad Academy (TIZA), illegally blurred the lines of church and state ...
