Archives for June 2016

Loneliness Licked by Love

Don’t surrender you loneliness so quickly. Let it cut more deep.   Let it ferment and season you as few human or even divine ingredient can. … [Read more...]

Death Address

For the first time in my life I know where my father is. I love having a dead dad. Death is an address he can’t change. In death, my father is … [Read more...]

Trauma-Informed Parenting: What Adoptive & Foster Parents Can Help Teach, Part 2

There are many adults with low ACE scores who parent children with high ACE scores. They are some of the best parents I know. They are often … [Read more...]

Trauma-Informed Parenting: What Adoptive & Foster Parents Can Help Teach, Part 1

People sometimes feel bad for adoptive parents. They think maybe our kids say, "You're not my real parents" on a daily basis and that we go to bed … [Read more...]