Homesick
“To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure…
Still Orphans
Faith and Foster Care
A Week In Reverse
Foster care is a series of building walls, bargaining, and small concessions. It’s been four months of absence after nearly four years of raising the…
Harriet Tubman and a Month of Absence
It’s been a month since the kids left, and I don’t have words to express the heartache I’ve succumbed to. Every day I struggle to…
One Week After Goodbye
It’s been a week. I was right in the middle of my textbook stress and grieving process when it hit like an anvil. For whatever…
Keepsakes to Send When a Placement Leaves
As we get ready to send our kids off, we want to ease the difficulty of the transition as much as possible, and we don’t…
There is a Fatality
“But there is a fatality, a feeling so irresistible and inevitable that it has the force of doom, which almost invariably compels human beings to…
Dear Child
Dear child. We have come to a fork in the road. I can no longer see where your path leads, and I cannot hold your…
Sunset at the End of the Road
It’s been one of those weeks. You know the kind: the weight of your emotions has glued you to the couch, long, sorrowful sighs cascade…
