By Jillian Lauren We spent a remarkable weekend with T’s “first friends.” Unprompted by me, he calls them his brothers and sisters. The first picture is of the kids when they were still living in a care center in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The second one is of the same kids now (in […]
On Special Needs…
A Family of Two?
Tedx Talk: Jillian Lauren – An Adoption Story
Micro-Aggressions: “Is He Yours?”
By Jillian Lauren I love Cesca Leigh’s Shit White Girls Say To Black Girls. Can’t get enough of it. It so eloquently addresses micro-aggressions. Micro-aggressions are described by Chester M Pierce as: brief and commonplace daily verbal, behavioral, or environmental indignities, whether intentional or unintentional, that communicate hostile, derogatory, or negative racial slights and insults toward people […]
Parenting: Scars
By Jillian Lauren T keeps wanting to hear the stories of our scars. His favorite is “How Dad’s Tooth Turned to Gold.” He also wants to incessantly recount the details of his own injuries. He walked into a closed sliding glass door on Memorial Day (he’s fine) and the narrative has practically become a Homeric […]
Parenting and Gratitude
Our First Bully
A Letter About Adoption
Parenting: Enjoying a Really Bad Day
By Jillian Lauren I recently went out for non-drinks with a pregnant writer friend, who is understandably concerned that motherhood will ruin her life. Oh, it will, I told her. Everyone’s going to tell you to go see a movie alone or some stupid thing like that. As if balancing a popcorn bucket on your […]
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