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I’ve Never Been So Happy to be Sick!!!!
Just like everyone else’s, my life sucks from time to time! This past month has been one catastrophe after another. Marie, my daughter who is deaf, had again been hospitalized due to a dangerous PTSD...
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A Whole New Meaning to “Swimming with the Fishes”
I have been fortunate in that my mother loved to travel and she often took me and one of my kiddos “along for the ride.” One of my favorite spots was Discovery...
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To Be Joyful with So Little
When Dinora and I visited her birth place, Guatemala, we spent some time with moms who were working picking coffee beans. They toil all day while their children play nearby. Prepared for this visit,...
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“If You Look for the Goodness in Your Children, Good Things Will Happen”
My dear friends and readers, Please excuse this commercial interruption of your regular reading. My book, with an actual cover and pages with WORDS on them in between, has just been published!!! The...
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The Words Every Adoptive Mom Longs to Hear…
Like most other adoptive parents, I adopted children because I, selfishly, wanted children. (My theory was if I had children to care for, I really didn’t have a lot of extra time to clean the house. I...
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Here a Friend, There a Happiness
My daughter, Marie, was severely abused as a toddler and young child. She came to live with us at the age of 7 after being found wandering the streets barefoot at 2 am carrying her infant brother...
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I Know Why My Family Had To Travel
I had always hated driving, which may have something to do with the fact that I traveled cross-country for most of my childhood years. My life lately includes a lot of it, with a granddaughter in...
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His or Her Graduation
My youngest child, Marie, will be graduating from high school at the American School for the Deaf in Hartford this week. When she came to live with us at the age of 7, her wild child behavior was...
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‘Twas Once a Child
My daughter, Marie, has reached adulthood, having graduated from a residential program that had services for both her deafness and her mental health issues. This is the age of worry for any parent,...
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Differences
Occasionally with my morning tea I play on the website Game Duel. This international site has all of the regular games for free; solitaire, Crazy 8s, Yahtzee and so forth. After waking up, I enjoy...
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