By Meika Rouda I don’t usually like to celebrate my birthday. I don’t know why it is such a big deal, it is just another day. And since I eat cake more often than I should and shop diligently online late at night when no one is watching, I don’t need extra calories or presents. […]
By Meika Rouda I just want to say that this really happened, as far fetched as it may seem, this is a true conversation I overhead. I think I may be the only person who could possibly hear such a conversation but that is true of most things in my life. The other day I […]
By Meika Rouda I feel like I have become complacent in an abusive relationship but I can’t leave, I can’t get out. No, really I can’t because it happens to be with my children and mom’s don’t leave their kids. I mean they do but I wouldn’t. I need to change the relationship and not […]
By Meika Rouda I hit my mom’s car a few weeks ago. Usually I am a careful driver, plus my car is equipped with these devices that beep hysterically to alert me to any chance of me hitting an object within two feet of my bumper. But on this particular day I was rushing and […]
By Meika Rouda My son is in first grade and this week he received his first homework. It is “reading” each night and writing down the books he looks at (he can’t read yet). The first night I tried to sit him down to do it he ended up throwing his pencil across the room […]
By Meika Rouda I often hear my friends describe a child as ” a nice kid” and I know they do not say that about my son. My son is wild and unpredictable, always the first to hatch a plan with friends, sometimes a good plan and sometimes a mischievous one. But one of the […]
by Meika Rouda Last year I had coffee with a friend of a friend to talk about adoption. Her name was Sarah and she and her husband had been waiting five years for a baby. They had been matched several times with birthmothers but each time the adoptions fell through. She was feeling very sad […]
By Meika Rouda When I was in college I attended my first pro-choice rally. We wore t-shirts with slogans like “U.S. out of my Uterus” and “Uncle Sam Stay Out of My Pants”. We went to Washington D.C. and marched for women’s rights.That was twenty years ago. While abortion is still a right that we […]
By Meika Rouda I haven’t been writing much this year. A slow spell of overwhelm came over me and I found it hard to muster the energy to write. It felt selfish of me, a purely indulgent act when so many other things needed to get done. First off are the kids, they need, well, […]
By Meika Rouda While last month’s Supreme Court decision to strike down the Defense of Marriage Act received much due attention and celebrating, there was another Supreme Court decision that also deserves a toast. The Supreme Court had an adoption case pending regarding the rules of the Indian Child Welfare Act. Veronica Capobianco nee Brown […]
