Part 2: Feeling the Earth Move

"Out of perfection nothing can be made. Every process involves breaking something up."
-- Joseph Campbell

Trying Not to Believe How I Feel

As I read the previous pages of my journal, I wonder if I have been naive. So much positivity and energy is expressed in those pages. Lately, I can rarely muster either. I have once again... [more]

Oh Happy Day!

I will remember this day for the rest of my life. My incredible fatigue is explained. My life is complete. Heck, the planets are aligned, or wherever they're supposed to be. I am pregnant. ... [more]

Innocence Lost

I am finding it hard to write this. I have lost our baby. As I write those words, I feel a heaviness in my chest that seems unbearable, but what choice do I have? I cannot believe that it h... [more]

From Two Souls, A Single Light

I have been functioning, although barely, on vanity for the past five weeks. I now have only one more week before the wedding, with all of the typical last-minute details to attend to. Rath... [more]

Quietly Seeking Absolution

It is good to have my home to myself again. While I think that our wedding went more smoothly than most I've seen, when I think back now on the last weeks, it feels like some sort of insani... [more]

Finding New Windows to Open

Working at the library is a double-edged sword. My nice, quiet job is also very physically demanding, much more so than I had expected. The constant standing and lifting, bending and squatt... [more]

Sticking My Foot in Doors, Again

I'm amazed at how many "irons in the fire" it is possible to have when one is not employed full-time! I ditched the library job, figuring that the physical exhaustion it was causi... [more]



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