Much has been said about the trauma of an adopted child. There are books, blogs, foster training, and conversations with other adoptive parents. It all becomes a little overwhelming after awhile. It affects how you view a child to be constantly thinking about the ways they can (and do) act out because of their fear …
Have you heard of The Minimalists? Or Joshua Becker’s blog Becoming Minimalist? Well, before they began blogging, and Minimalism became such a thing, there was Michael. Michael could have started the minimalist movement. The amount of things the man doesn’t need astounds me.
At the end of each year, I try to post a list of what I read that year. Due to ridiculous things like moving and tearing my blog apart, that wasn’t possible this year. So we’ll pretend that April is the best time to tell you about last year’s books.
Thankfully, if I ever forget that I have a blog, Facebook reminds me weekly that I haven’t been posting anything. They regularly let me know that I am basically a blogging failure. Facebook is so helpful. These days I do most of my writing in my head and then I forget it all before I …
