Poem For My Adopted Son
General/Column June 10, 2016
and for his mother, who surely kissed his head and hoped. For the woman who held him those 10 months…
Hold
General/Column June 3, 2016
for Kashala Hold him on your back. Hold him the way you were shown: one long piece of cloth, its…
The Baby We Didn’t Adopt
General/Column November 16, 2015
Memory misbehaves. I remember bits, and my husband remembers other pieces. How can it be we have forgotten anything? Time…
Abandoned
General/Column November 16, 2015
“Mom, Colombia is filled with drugs and violence,” my thirteen-year old son says matter-of-fact, out of the blue. We are…