A threat need not provoke a response if it is not taken up.
The birth mother is placing the baby out of love. I still believe that. Well, the ones weve dealt with who were actually pregnant, anyway.
I will say in open adoption, all these choices you make about race, about the amount of mental illness you can deal with, about special needs and physical maladies, you have to lay all this out there before you know anybody's story.
History releases me from my own experience and jogs my fictional imagination.
I feel like if writers used writing as therapy we'd have a ton of happy writers.
With domestic adoption, you get a form, you fill it out, and there are these boxes: African-American, African-American and Hispanic, and you check the boxes that you're comfortable with. Race is completely open in that regard.
The world is a dysfunctional place in so many ways. It is unstable. So even though that chaos can be reflected in our own homes, I suppose we have to fight that by creating our own versions of safety, which can also turn into ignoring the state of the world.
A leader, first and foremost, is human. Only when we have the strength to show our vulnerability can we truly lead.
Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.
America is ripe for a service revolution.
Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.