Me and Marshall near Coit Tower in San Francisco, 2006 My friend Marshall died yesterday morning. He was the first close friend I made when I moved to Seattle in 1985. We had been friends for 27 years. I will never forget the day we met, leaning against the wall in the basement of Savery […]
University of Washington
Home sweet home
This fall marks twenty-five years of Seattle living for Big Papa and I. I moved here after a three-year stint in the San Francisco Bay area, hitting the dusty trail to head north for a Ph.D. program at the University of Washington. Big Papa, a few years younger than me, was heading across country, from […]
Smart cookie
Paperwork, official documents, a home study and a dossier are just a few hurdles we have to clear on our path to adoption. Our adoption to-do list also includes 35 educational credits. In 2007, when the U.S. signed the Hague Convention Treaty on International Adoption a minimum of ten hours of parent education was required. […]
XY
Pink was the color of my childhood bedroom. In the morning, when the light was soft, the walls were the color of our Magnolia blossoms in spring. Later in the day, the color would deepen to a rosy hue. As a little girl, I loved pink. I was a girly-girl. My favorite pre-school activity was […]