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Bon Appetit

Both of my children were picky eaters. (Not a trait that came from their adventurous, creative father. I have to confess that the blame lies solely at my door.) Aidan was so limited that if you fed him...

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Helicopter Parenting Fail

We risked a peek inside the BBQ grill, and there were 8 itty bitty eggs, all different shades of creamy brown. The eggs were cupped in a downy coating of chicken feathers. This time, I promised I...

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Haiti Pt 1

“So what do you think of Haiti?” someone asked me on our second day in the country. I sat there and fumbled for words as the silence stretched into awkward. We’ve been home for several days and I’m...

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The Orphanage

I expected to heave my heart torn at the orphanage that we visited. It was, but not in the way that I imagined. Honestly, I was embarrassed. I was sheepish that my status as a blanc from America gave...

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More from Haiti

She's laughing because I'm losing spectacularly. Honestly, it would be easy to take pictures in Haiti that tug hearts and evoke sympathy. Poverty is everywhere, and in staggering degrees compared to...

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Boy Meets Girl

I can’t believe that years ago Aidan went off to kindergarten, wearing a bright green North Face backpack, so huge on his back that he looked like a turtle. He’s still wearing that same backpack....

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Iowa

We went to an orphanage in Haiti. I thought it was beautiful. They had gardens, rabbits, cows, and a plump black pig sleeping in the shade of a tree, next to the path. Every morning, before we opened...

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A Photographer’s Family Photos

Our family photos have a predictable pattern. The sequence of events goes something like this; Step One, hand camera over to an unsuspecting, willing participant, in this case, my ever dashing nephew,...

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It’s About Grit

We sat in the car after a humiliating defeat. The jump to competitive 11v11 soccer was a rude awakening to a group of girls who had dominated their previous division. Chloe played goalie for the second...

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Aspen Yellow

Sometimes I imagine I’m in the middle of a lemon cake. Usually during those times there is a lot of chaotic noise clanging in my ears. I’ve found it’s best to imagine that the noise is not affecting me...

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Stories

In Haiti we met a man named Joe. He lived and worked at the orphanage. He told me he was a teacher and the “disciplinarian”. Joe made me a little nervous because he had an inscrutable, serious face. I...

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The Lost Coin

Edward told us that the kids at the orphanage came to them from various hard places. Some because of great loss, and some from places of great pain-because what other than great pain would cause...

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Weekend Rewind

I spent my birthday weekend in Pueblo this last weekend. I have to confess that my expectations were sorely crushed. The name “Pueblo” conjured up images of adobes with colorful doors, cactus and...

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Because and Why

A sticky July, sixteen years ago, I was in Romania, the first brush strokes of new life stirring in my belly. Romania, 2000 The young street beggers followed our American entourage, hands outstretched...

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A Little Track Story

Chloe suffered a concussion in soccer. She was playing goalie and went down on her knees for a ball, and got stepped on and a knee in the head. She took a week off of school, and three weeks off of...

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Pages

Who do I say that I am to make you want me? When we first met Maria, she was shy bordering on terrified. She hid behind a curtain of bangs, peeking out at the world behind a wispy shield. Her video...

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Colombia

We are here in Colombia! I have a huge new understanding of what it’s like trying to navigate life in a different culture. Other places that we have visited have had many English speakers or at least,...

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Colombia #2

We have been in Colombia for almost three weeks now. I have not blogged as much as I thought I would because this process seems so intensely personal. Does that make sense? Our Maria Fernanda is so...

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More from Bogota

  I’m sitting in Bogota, in a tiny little apartment on the sixth floor. The coffee is dripping in the pot and arepas are warming on the stove. The ground is still dripping wet from the rainstorm, and...

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Home

This business of adoption, or any parenting for that matter, is not for the fainthearted. I could string moments together like pearls, into a necklace of stories, that said that beauty and love triumph...

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