I just did in my early twenties what most did when they were teenagers, being free and exploring and making mistakes, but I did it in France. I did it privately.
I want to say that, in general, when it works, open adoption is great.
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.
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.
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.
My father loved poetry and music. But deep in himself he thought teaching the finest thing a person could do.
I faxed a transfer request to the club at the beginning of the week, but let me state that I don't want to leave Leicester.
My job is to try and bring attention to places that don't have it
I didn't get much peace, but I heard in Norway that Russia might well become a huge market for tractors soon.