RAD and Normalcy: Is RAD Actually the Normal Response for an Adoptee?
Disclaimer: This is certainly not a new topic. I don’t want to pretend that this post represents any kind of brainstorm on my part– this topic has been bandied about for a long time in adoptee...
View ArticleA Month in the Life
I’m feeling bloggy but I’ve been pretty heavy lately, so I thought I’d do a little lighter post about what’s been going on in Mooga-land. Life on the professional front is going swimmingly. I went...
View ArticleBoo You! Legal Edition — Crowell & Moring and their allegations of inbreeding...
I don’t blog much about things related to my work life, but I read something on a legal blog that heartily deserved a Boo You! and I couldn’t resist. In the not-too-distant past, that being June 2011,...
View ArticleSpring!
We are so, so ready for spring around here. Daylight savings time started on Sunday, and if you follow me on Twitter you know my whining started at least two weeks before. Now that we are at the end...
View ArticleA Month of Firsts
Bug has had a big April, one with a lot of firsts for her! G and I are both baseball lovers, but we’ve been lax in passing that on to Bug. We got an opportunity to remedy that parental failing when my...
View ArticleMedical History Should Be a Human Right
The thoughts in this post will be nothing new to all the adoptees out there, but dang it, I thought I’d throw my two cents in as a parent to a child with no medical history. Access to your family’s...
View ArticleSilent No More
I’ve been contemplating getting back in the blogging spirit, and had a couple of different blogposts in mind for doing that. Those will have to wait, though, because something that came across my...
View ArticleThe automatic defensive response by some adoptive parents when bad adoption...
mad momma moogacat:TAO says it all. I am so frustrated by my fellow adoptive parents. Originally posted on The adopted ones blog: By TAO Just a short post to speak to the automatic defensive response I...
View ArticleCritical Whiteness
I haven’t feeling very bloggy lately, but a couple of issues have popped up as of late to jar me out of my writing slumber. One of those issues is the concept of “whiteness.” I know what you’re...
View ArticleLean In? No thanks. “Leaning Sideways” and rethinking priorities worked for me.
What does it mean to have a successful career? A successful life? I’ve been thinking about these questions of late, prompted in part by Sheryl Sandberg’s Lean In movement, and partly by my inclusion...
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