On Having an Adoptive Mother’s Heart

In our house, we have a lot of kitchen counter conversations. The kind where you’ve emptied all sorts of bits and pieces of deliciousness out of the fridge, like a cheeseball and crackers or summer sausage or a fruit tray, and stand there snacking while you solve the world’s problems? A couple years ago, […]

On Canada Day & Gratitude

It’s Canada Day, and although some say they’re proud on this day, I’ll tell you what – today I’m grateful. I had the wild opportunity as a young person to travel to a lot of countries. Beautiful countries like France, Germany, El Salvador, Mexico, and Guatemala, meeting beautiful people who shared their unique stories. […]

Why I’m Grateful for My Adoption Story

I’m so grateful to have my friend Lorilee Craker visiting today. I was honoured to write an endorsement for her memoir, Anne of Green Gables, My Daughter and Me: What My Favourite Book Taught Me about Grace, Belonging & the Orphan in Us All. In the spirit of learning to give thanks, and the […]

Learning to Give Thanks: Family

Recently I realized that, as the calendar turns to October, my mood changes to cranky as I look ahead to long days of dark and snow and cold and ice (and misery) in my adopted homeland. (Dear, dear Ontario, I love you, and you gave me blessed husband and sweet baby, but your winter lasts […]