Adam Pertman, Adoption Nation, book giveaway
I received an invitation to review Adam Pertman’s updated Adoption Nation last month. They wanted a transracial adoptive single mother’s point of view added to the mix. In exchange for my promise to...
View ArticleBook winners & Adoption Constellation subscription giveaway
Thanks to everyone who left a comment, and/or an answer to the question; What I’d like to read an adoption book about. on my Adoption Nation book review post. I hope the publishers are listening! Many...
View ArticleMother’s May: Celebrating First Moms, Many Moms.
from the archives: Tired Sam(3 weeks old) and tired mom (mine) /Mama C and the boys This year we’re sending a card that Sam picked out, and one of his drawings from school. A photograph of him and his...
View ArticleHonored and begging
Where the magic began (series the blog banner is from)/ Mama C and the Boys It was a sweet surprise. An email mentioning my inclusion in the Circle of Moms 25 Best Adoption Bloggers. Of course it...
View ArticleIn the big light (Mama C is interviewed)
Marcel waiting for the photographer/ Mama C and the Boys An interview with Mama C is online at Psychology Today. The piece feels like an arrival on many levels: personal voice, competency on a subject,...
View ArticleAll the single mamas doo do dooo do. All the single mamas…
Let's give it up for my single Mama! I just want to say thank you to the single mamas who have been reaching out to me so much recently. My single mother badge of honor is one I don’t take out often...
View ArticleCelebration time!
Because of this little piece of data on my blog earlier this week: WOOOOOT!!!!! Talk about a milestone! we went out and had an ice cream to acknowledge the beginning of the season, and all the ways we...
View ArticleWhere am I? Where I am.
Here I am. I’ve been feeling a little unplaced the last few weeks. Journeying between my rich old life and this rich new one. We say old to mean the past, the former, what we no longer have or do: Our...
View ArticleMamaC is nominated for a best of Portland award
I was truly delighted to wake up to see this: Best Blog nomination Portland Phoenix 2013 I am reasonably certain this is about a dear friend nominating me, and not some mass movement to acknowledge my...
View ArticleJourney to here from there. Residency Day 1
I am stunned with gratitude and humbled by all the generosity, and warmth that welcomed me to this magnificent writers residency. I could barely sleep last night from the fortune of it all. I walked...
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