Full Spectrum Mama

Dear Persons , There are not as many advocates for attachment disorder awareness as there are for the other areas of advocacy I explo...

Parents who have children who were adopted from orphanages often have to ‘teach’ their children to acknowledge pain to themselves and to ex...

I posted my first second-anniversary list, on Advocacy, about two weeks ago. Immediately following that post, I had a startlingly depressi...

I dedicate this post to my Gram, Merlin Lorene Cunningham Shaffer, 10/20/17-5/22/13. The giant rocks on her tiny fingers from her ador...

Tra la la…”Sweet lovers love the spring…”* Tra la… Let’s see… This time last year, we were in discussions about a possible 504...

First, the corny bit: I walked into the ocean late this summer in a foul mood and, seeing how vast and impervious she was, had the tremend...