Birthdays January is the month when I “observe” my birthday, so, what’s not to like about that ‘special’ day, as some people label it?...
Adoption: Ensuing Relationships There are casualties of the system, and today I still bear the aching scars of the bleaker side of this process....
The Imposing Poppy On the first day of this year, we sat down to discuss how we would celebrate my son’s 50th birthday in...
Fireworks to Celebrate Today, the 1st of August, is the Swiss national holiday, when the nation gathers together for festive brunches and an annual...
A Woman’s World Early in the 20th century, a group of women in the UK fought a feisty campaign against all odds, to try...
Bethany, My Gestating Blackbird In June of last year, I wrote about an immature magpie who aborted his useless, half-baked nest in a nearby...