I am reading a book called Digging to America by anne tyler.  It's a very good book about 2 couples who adopt baby girls from Korea.  One of the couples is Iranian american.

The storyline is appealing without any personal ties but I find it is giving me insight into what some of my family is going through or has gone through.

My brother adopted his ( Read more... )

Right now I have some friends (lj and real life) that are having problems with their families. This has me thinking back to the 2 biggest issues I have had with my family ( Read more... )

So we make it to Tony's dr appointment with lots of rushing and last minute directions... which puts me on edge.  More about the dr visit later.  We head over to walmart after running a few errands and song below comes on.

My mother was the center of our family.  We definately had a matriarchal(sp?) family.  Right before she died, none of us ( Read more... )