Posted in adoption, animals, children, family, home, lake, parenting, tagged animals, courage, dog, family, lake life, parenting, rabbits, rescue, saving, winter on January 29, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Right now I want to write about the courage of the human spirit. In particular, the spirit locked within the adolescent breast of my thirteen-year-old son.
Right now I want to write about his witness, about his goodness, about his compassion.
Last night my son stepped into the icy waters of an ice-rimed [...]
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Posted in adoption, babies, children, family, parenting, tagged adoption, adoptive parents, amazon, baby boomer, best seller, best selling author, children, daughter, family, parenting, son, writer on January 25, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Best Selling Baby Boomer Author, Debra Shiveley Welch is a writer to be reckoned with in the literary world! In just a few short months, her book Son of My Soul: The Adoption of Christopher jumped all the way to the Top 20 on Amazon.com.
In a recent review by MidWest Books, senior reviewer [...]
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Posted in adoption, children, family, parenting, tagged children, parenting, family, mirroring, self esteem, ego on January 22, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I am Your Mirror
I am your mirror. When you look into my eyes,
you see how beautiful you are.
When you enter a room, my heart lifts up to meet you;
a smile of greeting lights me up from within.
I am your mirror. When you look into my eyes,
you see love, as my soul embraces yours,
revealing to you [...]
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