Check out the post from my friend, Soniyi, a Single Baby Mama to be. Her Ethiopian adoption is turning into a trial, just like mine. Please say a prayer for her baby to come home, soon. https://soyiniwilson.wordpress.com/2013/04/26/news-on-the-adoption/comment-page-1/#comment-60
Two years ago, when an Ethiopian judge asked how I proposed to take care of a baby alone I repeated, after my panic subsided, an old African proverb:“It takes a village to raise a child; and back home in New York City I have a small village.” My words came back to me, with the […]
I thought after viewing the morning news at the dawn of last Wednesday my next post would focused around Steve Martin was becoming a first time Dad at the age of 67 and the second coming, so to speak, of Alex Baldwin’s fatherhood as he and his third wife await their new baby. abcnews.go.com/Health/alec-baldwin-wife-pregnant-fatherhood-time/story?id=18494143 I […]
Monday, February 4th, marked the two-year anniversary of Julia’s homecoming. I hadn’t plan any sort of celebration, only to get through my busy day, my piles of writing work, return home and make our dinner. Halfway through the turkey stew with mashed potatoes (served on Julia’s lepoard shaped plate) she started to chortle in an […]
The wonderful thing about making time for a blog is the wonderful people I have met through the written word. I started The SIngle Baby Mama site, a little over two years ago, so those who also adopted could find connection, community and care before they became parents. Information is power. So, with that I’m proud to […]
This week The New York Times published an essay on the cost of feeding, housing and educating a child into adulthood, and beyond. The post by Nadia Taha, The Cost, in Dollars, of Raising a Child covered every element of child rearing one could think of from braces to college to providing healthcare to the child […]
As more parts of the city regained power, as Julia and I walked past the entrance to the great park on Central Park West and 100th Street, the nearest playground to our home, an area less than fifty-feet away from the barricade remained closed-off with crime scene yellow tape and a gang of dull metal […]
