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 […]
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 […]
I have asked that question many times over these past couple of weeks. It seems most of us, over a certain age, have more than one. I remember the Robin Williams/Mork doll complete with rainbow suspenders and a hint of chest hair (from the late 70’s, I think). I’m pretty sure my brother or I […]