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  • The Trip Home - Part II

    How do you stretch a three hour nap over a four and a half hour flight...you don't

     

     

     

    It has taken some time to get this down on paper.  I think in reflection it is easier to find some humor in it.  My predictions of an ill-fated plane ride home though dramatic, were pretty much on the mark.  But really, what's a vacation without a little traveling drama?  It makes the story a little more interesting for everyone.  I would much rather hear about the crazy taxi driver who almost killed everyone, or the sudden thunderstorm that threatened to wash our beach hut into the bay, then "we had a wonderful, relaxing time." 

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  • The Trip Home - Part I

     


     

    Wishing my son could grow-up around my family

    On the last day, I think we were all ready to head back home.  It was a good trip--the first time in recent memory that I had ever thought of moving back home.  In those seven days I got much more than I expected out of being with family, not that I had low expectations.  I felt their warmth in a different way than I ever had before.  After forty some-odd years of being their son, brother, uncle, friend, I was now a dad.  I don't know how that made me different or how it may have made them different towards me.  In any case there was so much good in what I and my little family felt from them. 

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  • Strangers Among Us

     


    There is no time in my life other than this one as Ty's foster dad when I have been so acutely aware of strangers and their potential impact on our lives.  Juan and I have encountered what seems like an army of people, many who claim to have his and our interests in mind.  We've met others who, on the surface, seem to have the best of intentions and give us no reason to believe otherwise.  But who are these people?  What roles do they play?  What power do they have to shape our lives?

    Friend or foe?

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Meet the Fosters

Juan and Darrow in Baltimore

Juan, an analyst, and Darrow, an IT manager- turned-social worker, are a Maryland couple working to adopt a child through the foster care system. An amazing baby boy was placed with them in the fall of 2007. Follow their quest to become his parents here, and catch the first part of their story on Darrow and Juan's personal blog, The Daddy Diaries.

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