Category: Mothers
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Catholic Culpability in Adoption
Let me begin by admitting that it’s taken me two months to write this. In early September, I read The Price of Children: Stolen Lives in a Land Without Choice by Maria Laurino, an Italian American journalist whose cousin adopted…
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Woman in Transition
Today’s post is brought to you by pain, the kind of pain that only women know, particularly women of a certain age. Let’s talk about perimenopause, shall we? If you’re asking, what the heck is that?, trust me, you’re not…
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Allowing Myself Grace
Last week I got way off track with my schedule for a number of reasons, a big one being that my daughter began another nine week session of online school from home due to COVID-19. My family has been here…
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Thoughts on Wake Up Little Susie by Rickie Solinger
This past month, I finally got around to reading Wake Up Little Susie by Rickie Solinger, a book that has been highly recommended in the adoption community. The book’s focus, though, isn’t adoption, but rather the ways in which unmarried…
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So She Wouldn’t Forget
At no one’s urging, my daughter sat at our piano and sounded out the simple tune of “Mary Had a Little Lamb,” practicing it over and over until she could play it quick and smooth. I joined her to add…
Karen Pickell: Between 