my parents

30 Years Ago Today

My Mom died.  Death anniversaries may not be what most people celebrate, but maybe because I've had one in my life for SO long, it seems important to me. I just read something she wrote me when we moved to Maui in 1972 and it must have seemed like going to the frontier compared to [...]

Today’s National Adoption Day

National Adoption Day was created in order to help bring awareness to the needs of foster youth. Help create families, people! I say this as an adopted person.  I was lucky enough to have been born in a time when babies in need of homes were rare. My adoptive parents chose me and I couldn't [...]