Comments on: I know I keep repeating myself

By: Getting back to answering questions | this woman's work

Getting back to answering questions | this woman's work — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 19:46:32 +0000

[...] In response to this post, Angela asked, “What is your 5 or 10 yr plan…do you have one? As in “where would you like your life/family/work to be in 5 or 10 yrs?” [...]

By: Pronoia

Pronoia — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 20:32:07 +0000

Thanks for repeating yourself. Clearly, people still don’t get the idea of looking outside of ourselves and being part of the solution.

By: Thanksgivingmom

Thanksgivingmom — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 15:48:11 +0000

For whatever it’s worth, you can keep repeating yourself as often as you like as long as it’s to keep standing up for women, and understanding the link we all share, especially those that have been marginalized.

I could read that all day long It’s so refreshing to read and it provides me with hope, that is much needed.

Hmm…questions….everyone else’s are really good! I’ll come back if I think of something.

By: Vicki

Vicki — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 04:44:28 +0000

My question is–do you get a lot of people wanting to talk to you about the stories or situations of adoption that they know about in their own lives? Not people who are actually involved in adoption, but people who have neighbors with adopted kids, or a friend who adopted and it was sort of open and the friend was kind of not sure about openness, or knew someone at work whose daughter had a baby that was adopted.

And, are you going to post a picture of your new hairdo?

By: Erin O'

Erin O' — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 02:30:30 +0000

I’m just catching up, here. I like this short but sweet post — Totally get the scarlet “A” being one encounter away! I myself have been called a “hussy” by a male who was supposedly my friend.

I just posted about our older son’s difficulties with women (me!) in authority. I’m feeling better about it all now, but I am so concerned about raising men who respect women. Especially their first mother — I’ve been consistently bringing her up, asking questions, affirming her place in their lives. So far, older son doesn’t choose to comment. Younger son seems to have romanticized her as his “wutit” (milk) benefactor.

I don’t know if you’re done answering questions, but I was wondering about your decision not to adopt the same way — does that mean domestic infant adoption specifically? Or the agency you chose? We too are overwhelmed with parenting, though I have to admit my shallow desire to parent a little girl. Sigh.