O.k., this is the third and final section of my notes about this ASAP conference. It was a panel discussion led by Hollee McGinnis who works for the Evan B. Donaldson Institute and who founded Also-Known-As, Inc. (see websites at the end of the email).
She opened the talk and then talked more between and at [...]
Archive for November, 2007
Adoption & Education Forum, Part 3, Hollee McGinnis
Posted in Adoption, Adoption/Parenting, tagged Adoption on November 26, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Adoption & Education Forum, Part 2, Joyce Macquire Pavao
Posted in Adoption, tagged Adoption on November 26, 2007 | 1 Comment »
As promised, I’m adding more notes from the conference on November 10th, 2007. This time, the heavy-hitter of a speaker is Joyce Macquire Pavao. For a little about her and her organization, there’s a link to the organization she founded AND an excerpt of her biographical sketch at the bottom of these notes:
She followed Boris [...]
Thanksgiving Morning
Posted in Sea Glass/Beach Combing, Writing, tagged sea glass on November 23, 2007 | 3 Comments »
Fog covers the water. A woman walks on the shore and there is no landscape or sense of place. It looks as though she’s walking in and across steam. Timeless. The ocean is timeless today. It’s warm, sunny, almost sixty degrees. It’s late November and I am wearing only jeans and a sweater and a [...]
Adoption & Education Forum – Notes
Posted in Adoption, Adoption/Parenting, Parenting, tagged Adoption on November 17, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
So, a week ago today I spent my Saturday at an Adoption and Education Forum. It was sponsored by the Adoption & Foster Care School Awareness Project and had some big name speakers such as Joyce Maguire Pavao and Hollee McGinnis. Boris Gindis was there as well and I have some notes from his talk [...]
Adoption- link to article by Hollee McGinnis
Posted in Adoption, Adoption/Parenting, tagged Adoption on November 15, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
My aunt sent me this link to an article written by Hollee McGinnis who I just so happened to hear speak an an Adoption and Education Forum held in Pembroke, MA
http://relativechoices.blogs.nytimes.com/
The cool coincidence is that my aunt didn’t know I went to this conference and that she was the key speaker on the panel.
What I Know of Nothing, free-writing poem, Christine “Cissy” White
Posted in Sea Glass/Beach Combing, Writing, tagged sea glass on November 12, 2007 | 1 Comment »
What I Know of Nothing
Christine “Cissy” White
I know, at forty,
at least something
which is I know nothing
and even this knowledge is suspect.
At forty,
I forgave my mother
for having me,
for having had the nerve to have me.
She had told me when I was a crying teen,
face down on a twin bed, [...]
Noticing and Being Noticed
Posted in Sea Glass/Beach Combing, Writing, tagged sea glass on November 6, 2007 | 2 Comments »
NoticingA friend reminded me to get to the ocean yesterday because of the big storm we had. Thank You to you ocean girl! I’m so glad as I did find a few larger than usual pieces and my favorite white frosty gems. They are so chalky and salt stained, have called the ocean home for so long I [...]
