adoption

You've got to play just to make it today

As a child, I created a notebook with color-coded pages on which I had done drawings of each outfit I owned to accompany my color-coded...

Give Sorrow Words: the Healing Power of Theater

Over the past 10 years my husband and I have done quite a bit of reading, taking classes, attending conferences, and learning from...

saying yes to losing control

When I was younger I did not want the mess, the noise, the chaos, or the financial burden of children. And I was under the impression...

Adoption. God loves it.

We adopted our son six weeks after he had survived a premature birth at 25 weeks due to an overdose of cocaine. He was born at 1 lb. 14...

St. Valentine: active love is labor and fortitude

In our family, we have four very intense children, two adopted with trauma histories, one with secondary trauma, one with a missing...