Advocacy

It’s been a while, I know. I’ve missed you! As we barrel headlong into the holidays, I wanted to reach out and tell you how thankful I...

You deserve to be happy… That was the well-worn refrain of my girlfriends, when we were in our early twenties. Usually in response to ...

Tariku and I attended the Women’s March Los Angeles, on January 21, 2017.We could barely move, gridlocked in a sea of bodies. We were all...

To my Starshine on his Gotcha Day. A year ago, you showed up here in your red-and-black sweatsuit, with pleather stars in a semicircle...

Yesterday, the four of us drove out to Lancaster and stood holding hands under the fluorescent lights of the juvenile court. The kindly...

Dear Parents of Well Behaved Children, I just spent the summer traveling around the country with two spirited children and I have met...

Two days ago we were at the water table in the Chicago Children’s Museum. I left the room for exactly five seconds to tell Scott...

In some ways, tour is anarchy—the boys are up late dancing to crazy loud rock music, giving each other dinosaur tattoos with face paint,...

This past weekend, I had the privilege of delivering the keynote at the Parenting in Space conference, a fantastic therapeutic parenting...

Would you walk up to a pregnant woman and tell her about your friend’s cousin's daughter whose infant died of a rare disease, offer her...

To Tariku on his Gotcha Day—I always love your Gotcha Day (remember when you used to call it your “Cha Cha Day”?), because it’s a chance...

As many of you know, Scott and I are in the process of adopting through LA County DCFS (Department of Child and Family Services). As of a...

“She used to sing musical theater loud in the grocery store,” said Scott, when we and the other people in our foster parent training were...

“From here on out, the road is KAPUT,” said Aschalew, the local Help One Now director and our emissary here. Translation: the road is...

Last year Tariku renamed his "Gotcha" Day (the anniversary of the day he was finally in our arms), "Cha Cha Day." Which is obviously the...

The original letter is hidden somewhere safe in Paris....November 19, 2013 Dear Tariku, As I write this, you are at home with your dad...

My dear friend Jen Wilson passed away last night after a long and heroic battle with cancer. Her friends and family are all grieving...

Tariku in our arms. We call it his "Gotcha" day and celebrate it as a kind of second birthday. T has taken to calling it his “Cha Cha”...

T is still unexpectedly napping in the car and I'm sitting a few feet away in the dappled shade under our camphor tree, having one of...

Here is the text of my third Huffpo Fringe Diary (DJ took the groovy pic): I lived in Paris one glorious and angst-ridden summer in my...