Abby Blackmon

Today, I am ____________ .

Abby Blackmon 6 Comments Abby Blackmon, depression, Life, Women

20 November, 2014 I am forty-five years old today. I am a gray-headed, spectacle-wearing, grocery-getter driving wife of one, mother or bonus mom to five, pediatrician, Haiti-loving middle aged woman. When, exactly, did this happen? I could swear just last week I was dancing at the Music Farm on Meeting Street, or studying on Tradd […]

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Almost Six Months in: an Update and Some Lessons Learned

Abby Blackmon 2 Comments Abby Blackmon, Adoption

This business of adoption/soul healing is exhausting. When we finally got Lenia home, three plus years after meeting her, I had no illusions about the work we faced, just as I had none when our biological children were born. After all, I am a pediatrician, right? In both cases, it turns out having wide open eyes and no […]

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