There may be some doubt as to who are the best people to have charge of children, but there can be no doubt that parents are the worst. ~George Bernard Shaw
This month I’ve got a whole run of cases where a parent’s rights may be involuntarily terminated. The purpose of the termination is to free [...]
Posts Tagged ‘family’
8 Aug
When a parent’s not a parent
14 Jun
This is my country–pimples and all
The first several days of this trip were geared for speed and efficiency, not fun. So we zoomed across the first several states–or tried to, until we hit Illinois, the State of Highway Renewal.
For a 200-mile stretch of highway, there was a work area about every 15 minutes, and we actually went five miles in [...]
13 Jun
Can a story make a difference?
This week my second Cup of Comfort story came out in the book A Cup of Comfort for the Adoptive Family. In the story, I share the reason I finally went ahead and adopted the Cabana Boy’s three small children, knowing then that they had lifetime issues.
Reading through some of the other stories in the [...]
14 Sep
Another year older and deeper in…
No, not ME. My youngest grandchild turned one this week, and we went to her house for a cookout and birthday party. The food was yummy, standard cookout fare, well- prepared, and my daughter made enough to feed an army. (Well, she really made enough to feed the kids for dinner too, so she didn’t [...]
12 Aug
Toronto: Day Two
We debated many possible ways to spend the afternoon before returning to the States. My request was for a tour of the city, and the Cabana Boy was willing to oblige by being the driver. (Tho it must be said Canadian drivers are very polite, if somewhat unpredictable.)
First we headed to the waterfront at Queen’s [...]
6 Aug
Reality crashes in
This week I’ve had two whammies of a sort that make me have to confront our children’s situation–and their very clear deficits that I often try to minimize.
The first was a two-day custody trial for a client whose child was diagnosed last summer with Asperger’s Syndrome (the same diagnosis as Captain Oblivious). The child is [...]
14 Jun
The more, the merrier?
My Seattle daughter is now my Pensacola daughter–or will be Sunday night when she arrives in Florida after spending four days with us, along with her three little ones, ages 7, 5 and 3. She made the trip cross country to see all the “grands” before they get settled into their new home.
It had been [...]
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