This last year has been defined by two themes: isolation and community. How the heck those two themes go together? I don’t know, but let me try to explain. I learned in the hardest way imaginable this year that I have been a burden to my friends. I don’t say that lightly to to illicitContinue reading “You’re on your own, kid. Sorta.”
Tag Archives: Foster Care
Blindsided: This Attorney Foster Mom’s Take on the Oher-Tuohy Controversy
The role of foster families is not to provide an alternative means of living for the children that they home, rather, our role is to stand in the gap. What do I mean by that? It’s simple: we are their surrogate family. We are not “instead of” the family that they came from, but rather we are simply there to provide these children with a sense of normalcy while their first family takes the time that they need to work through whatever situation led to the removal.
Lost in church green rooms.
I am no stranger to the American Christian evangelical counter culture. In fact, I think that I should get extra points for having grown up in the Assemblies of God my entire life. Heck, I even attended Southeastern University, a notoriously Christian Assemblies of God university in the middle-of-nowhere Lakeland, Florida. I have always struggledContinue reading “Lost in church green rooms.”
A reintroduction.
Hello blog! It’s been a while. I am not quite sure where or when I abandoned you. I guess I could go back and re-read through my old posts and figure that out, but I won’t. So you may be wondering what I’ve been up to and why I feel the need to reintroduce myselfContinue reading “A reintroduction.”
The Lady Esquire 