3/15
Becoming: The check
Read Time: 4 minutes
Heading home from my first day of second grade. The Alder and Maple are turning, but most leaves haven’t fallen.... View Article
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Archive for: Bullying
3/15
Becoming: Lessons in pain
Read Time: 9 minutes
When my emotions run hot, my skills go cold. “Teddy, what’s three times five?” Asked in a voice, I can’t... View Article
3/15
Adoption Series: Everything changed
Read Time: 16 minutes
The demon inside awakens. I’m curled in a ball. I should be running for the hills. Judy’s wildly waving a... View Article
4/6
Negotiations: Bully
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Sometimes avoidance, is key to survival. Just like home. I’d arrived. Twenty-one and a newly hired design illustrator at Boeing.... View Article
3/3
Adoption Series: Ledger
Read Time: 4 minutes
I was fostered at birth and adopted at five months by the Leonhardts. I meant to make him feel bad.... View Article
10/22
Adoption Series: Milk money
Read Time: 4.5 minutes
Mrs. Hays slipped on the wet porch step. The milk money basket hit the asphalt, spewing nickels, dimes, pennies, and... View Article
8/22
Adoption Series: Couldn’t risk the shame
Read Time: 8 minutes
Couldn’t exist sanely with things as they were. Couldn’t stand the pain. Not knowing another way, I braced myself and... View Article
3/18
Shame hit like a boxer’s fist
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When an unexpected blow opens up possibilities “…and I’m reducing your salary 25%.” I could see that he was extremely... View Article
3/13
I saw first-hand the economic domination of Seattle’s poor
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“Now, honey, I’m sure we can find a way to reduce the rent.” It was late. Maybe around ten, my... View Article
A young teacher, a camera, and a life change
Read Time: 4 minutes
This evening a grade school classmate of mine arranged a Zoom reunion call. Thirteen of the eighty-five of us who... View Article
