This Book Made My Head Spin: I Am Forbidden
During the rut race, one of the things I focused on but didn’t write about was that I joined the online book club From Left to Write, inspired by reconnecting with an old friend. I used to be in a local book club, and I even ran it for a while. I fell out of sync with it when I found I wanted to read whatever I wanted to read, and was feeling stressed about reading book-club books. Unrelated to that, I fairly recently reconnected with an old friend on Facebook1. We met when we were teenagers, as members of a Jewish youth group. It does not cease to delight me that I love Robin as much...
Read MoreIt’s Serious Business
Last week I took a walk with a new friend. I pushed the stroller and she held the leashes of her dog and mine. We chatted about all sorts of things new friends talk about, including the dramatic tale of Owen’s arrival in our family. She asked me when or how we’ll tell Owen he’s adopted, and I realized two things: First, that I didn’t know how to answer the question. Second, that I’ve always known the answer to the question. Owen will always know the story of his coming to our family. Just like parents who gestated their children tell the stories of rushing to...
Read MoreSay hello to Owen William Piper Werker.
The thirty days have passed, the papers are signed, and I’ve squirreled away enough time to properly blog about our son. (I said “our son.” *giggle*) A month ago Greg and I were with his family in Whistler, chilling out and enjoying each other and looking ahead to 2011 and musing and reading and knitting and sleeping. On New Year’s Eve we were in a hospital trying to figure out what to name our kid. (Wednesday we spent a couple of hours with our friend Miranda, who happens also to be half of Blue Olive Photography. All these photos are by her. She’s freaking...
Read MoreHappy New Baby Year
I have only a few minutes to write this, so I’ll dispense with my inclination to properly introduce the topic and jump right to the point. Last Thursday afternoon we learned we’d been chosen to adopt a baby the next day. I’m sure you can imagine the frenzy of the following twenty hours. I’ll tell you all about it another time; it’s a pretty dramatic tale as your imagination has certainly already concluded. So last Friday at around noon we met our six-day-old healthy baby boy. Yes, your math is right – the Jewish couple is adopting a Christmas baby. And we...
Read MoreHousekeeping!
So many little things collecting in my brain, and I haven’t set any of them down here. Time to remedy that! *Rolls in my trusted bulleted list.* After a decade wondering what it would be like, I was on the radio. Not live radio, but radio all the same. In a studio, with a schmancy microphone. Sheryl MacKay interviewed me about Mighty Ugly for British Columbia CBC’s arts and culture show North by Northwest last weekend. It’s the first segment in the May 8th podcast, which you can download here, or here’s a direct link to the mp3. After six weeks wondering what it...
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