Y’all. I’m Back.
August. Brown is starting to dot my garden, and we’ve arrived at the bittersweet juncture of greenhouse clearances and fastly approaching chill. My birthday is…
Still Orphans
Faith and Foster Care
Tag: Fostering
2022 Prime Day for Foster Parents
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Evaluating a Year of Absence
To recap as it’s been many months since I’ve written anything here, it’s been a year since we said goodbye to children we raised just…
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…
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…
