Now I am going to write about the fourth article in a series on transracial adoption from the Salt Lake Tribune.

This article is titled, “Race, culture challenging, but not real barrier for adoptive parents’ love”.

I have to say that right off, I liked the title. It sort of sums up the way I feel about transracial adoption…Yes, there are issues. Yes, they can be difficult and challenging and should not be overlooked. But, those issues are not big enough for me to decide not to love that child, not to choose to parent that child or not to build my family this way.

Moving on… I... more

In my last two posts, I have written about two articles courtesy of the Salt Lake Tribune on international and transracial adoption. The first article discussed a variety of topics related to international adoption, including the “search for identity” by adopted children, and the second article was written by an adult adoptee from India who shared her feelings on not “belonging” in either the U.S. or in India.

The article I am going to write about today is from the same series, and is titled, ... more

In my last post, I wrote about an article in a recent series by the Salt Lake Tribune on international and transracial adoption. In this post, I am going to discuss another one of these articles.

This article is titled “I realized I was a permanent outsider”, and was written by Salt Lake Tribune reporter Sheena McFarland. It starts off by telling her story… of being adopted from India by a family living in Utah when she was very young, and just recently taking a trip back to India in an attempt to help... more

The Salt Lake Tribune has been running a series of articles on transracial adoption that I have been enjoying, and wanted to share with you.

The first one is titled “Kids Find Homes but Search for Identity”.

This article talks about the increasing number of transracial and international adoptions in the United States every year and provides a lot of information on the number of adoptions happening, where children are being adopted from, average costs and waiting times for different programs, etc. Make sure you scroll all the way to the bottom of the article for the “Tips for Adoptive Parents”,... more

I get so used to looking at my family, and seeing people of all different colors, races and backgrounds together as being "normal", that sometimes it is really hard for me to imagine that there are still places where segregation occurs routinely.

I am not naive and I certainly do know it occurs, but that doesn't make the reminders any less painful. It is sad and it is wrong, and in this day and age, there is no excuse for it other than plain old ignorance and hate.

Four high school students in Georgia recently took a stand against an annual tradition that had been promoting segregation at their high school, and made a change for the good.

Up until this year, the students... more

I said I was going to write about the blessings and the “good things” about transracial adoption, and I was planning on it and looking forward to it, but today there is another topic that I feel I should not skip over, and need to write about today.

I was not going to write about the horrible tragedy that occurred at Virginia Tech, because while it was a terrible national tragedy, it was not really relevant to transracial adoption in any way that I could see at first.

However, over the past few days, as the media has attacked this story from every angle and the stories, pictures and video are everywhere you turn, the coverage has started to have a negative effect on some transracial... more

Here is an awesome article from the New York Times for Love Thursday...

It is called "I Have Taken on My Daughter's Hair and Won", and is written by Randal C. Archibald, a black man and father who discusses his attempts and success with doing his daughter's hair, and the reactions he gets from his wife and other people in his life.

He talks about how black women give him oodles of praise and attention for being a black man that can "do hair". Here is a fun quote...

As Lyla and I depart, the receptionist at the counter coos.

“Who did your hair, sweetie,” she asks,... more

I promise I will get up the “A Day in the Life of Me” posts…I have been working on them, but they take forever to type up and we had a busy weekend. But I will get them up asap, because I get more requests for those posts than any other…

But I wanted to quickly share this awesome article about U.S. swim team rising star Cullen Jones.

Jones is not just incredibly talented in the pool, a member of the world-record setting 400 meter freestyle relay team, a favorite to win a gold medal in the Olympics next year and an athlete with a $2 million Nike contract…he is also black.

In many... more

Back in January I wrote this post titled "FINALLY-a Black Princess" about the fact that Disney is finally creating a full-length feature animated movie starring a black princess.

Today, USA Today released this article titled "Disney's First Black Princess to Debut in New Orleans."

The article does not have a lot of new information (in fact the links in the first post I wrote had a lot more info about the characters, story line, etc.) however, it confirms that Disney is still working on "The Frog Princess",... more

Can you believe it’s March??? The days are just whirring by around here! (and it certainly does not feel like March, on account of the fact that we have gotten about six inches of snow this week).

Let’s see…adoption news….

I am sure you have heard this, but Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt (well, technically just Angelina since they are not married) are adopting another child…this time from Vietnam.

There are stories all over the web…

This one on VietNamNet Bridge has a nice picture (sans Maddox).

Some articles state that Angelina and Brad want a child in the three to four year age range.... more