oldskewlwriting

1. I’ve been downloading old videos with dancing in ‘em to show Noah on our Tivo and one that I grabbed was “We’ll Be Together Tonight,” which has Sting and his doppelganger. There’s a scene where Trudy smacks Sting across the face and Madison said, “Why did she hit him? What would you do, Mommy? You know what I would do? I would KISS him!” Then she hid her face in the couch pillow.

2. I haven’t even looked at my chapter outline again since the agent took a pass and really need to get on it. But I also have a ton of regular work to do and I’m trying to get myself all set up to be out of my office for the next two weeks. I fully expect to come home from writing all day to write some more. I’m ok with that.

3. Someone asked me to speak at a gathering that may be contentious. It’s not even on anything actually controversial (like, say, adoption ethics). That’s all I can say about it. It’s one of three upcoming speaking engagements I have (two fairly soon and one in the fall). I should really join Toastmasters so that I can actually get good at this but then again I have no time for Toastmasters.

4. Did I mention that my cousin’s band is going to be on the Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson? Well, they are. On April 30th. Thank god for TIVO because I haven’t stayed up that late since Hector was a pup. (Who is Hector anyway? Oh, here he is.)

5. I’m sad that I can’t get to the last hearing for HB 7. If you are in Columbus and you feel strongly (as you should) that EVERY Ohio adoptee has the right to his or her birth certificate please please please go and show your support!!! Contact Marley to learn more. You don’t have to be connected to adoption to help!!!

6. I’m also not going to get to go to this:

Just a reminder about tomorrow’s press conference at Capital Law School, where we’ll launch the improved adoption and child-welfare law Web site. The site contains plain English summaries of case law, statutes, and regulations from all 50 states, as well as answers to frequently asked questions, giving people who are interested in adoption, as well as child welfare professionals, free access to the most up-to-date and comprehensive adoption and child welfare law and policy in the country.

The National Center for Adoption Law & Policy at Capital University Law School (NCALP) will unveil its new Adoption and Child Welfare LawSite (www.adoptionchildwelfarelaw.org) at 10 a.m. on Tuesday, April 29, 2008.

Life takes up so much of my attention!!! There are so many things that I miss!!!

7. I wrote to my old social worker about the hearing and they are getting in touch with women who placed through their agency and have since contacted them about reunion to ask them to testify. My feelings about our adoption may have changed and my feelings about certain details of our agency experience may have changed but I still adore our social worker who is one nifty woman.

8. Speaking of adoption (and aren’t I always? more or less?) I was remembering last night that one of the nurses cut a lock of Madison’s hair for Pennie to take home the day before she signed the papers. I used to look at the place in Madison’s hair where they cut it (right in the back where babies sometimes develop little mullets) and think about Pennie. It took a long time to grow back. I’d say almost through her second year I could still see where her hair was a little shorter.

9. There were other little reminders that would sometimes shake me up those first days. I’ve tried to write an essay about this one and can’t but Madison didn’t lose her umbilical cord for a long long long time. I’d have to look it up to see when but it was far longer than Noah did. Read into that what you will (I sure did. I still do.)

10. Someone who is blogging but not really publicly (so I will not link) asked, “How did you make the decision to blog so publicly?” And the short answer is, “By accident.” That’s not totally true because I knew I wanted to blog openly to see what came of it. The journals I first read and that inspired me to try it were all very confessional and bold. What I didn’t realize is that blogging would catch on the way it has. I didn’t realize that there’d be so many of us blogging and reading each other’s blogs. I used to blog into a faceless void but then so many of you moved into focus and some of you became in real life friends and other real life friends found my blog, etc. I try never to write about something that I’d be unhappy being confronted about. What I tell my blogging clients is this: Don’t write about anything that you’d rather not have someone bring up in the grocery store check-out. Because they will. The thing about blogging is that a lot of strangers end up knowing you rather well even if you don’t know them at all. If that idea makes you uncomfortable, blog anonymously.

Bookmark
SubscribeBloglinesDiggdel.icio.usFacebookStumbleUponTechnorati

Related posts