Category: raising other people’s children without going through the technicalities of adoption

  • If These Old Walls Could Speak

    It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one’s neighbor–Eric Hoffer   For years, I watched her wandering the city, talking to herself, hugging her clutch of plastic bags to her chest defensively, avoiding eye contact, wearing dirty and mismatched clothes–her entire being an illustration of unchecked mental illness. I saw […]