by Mary Carey | Jul 31, 2020 | covid, pandemic, pandemic lessons
A Pandemic’s Legacy Brother Love For this, I will remember you: COVID 19, your time upon this earth will be discussed, studied, dissected and lamented for centuries. You will not be forgotten for the deaths, the illnesses and the...
by Mary Carey | Jul 20, 2020 | Adoption, discrimination, parenting, racism, transracial adoption
Adoption Finalized–Getting Ethan Dressed to Leave the Orphanage Dale and I had been awake for approximately 23 hours when we visited the orphanage. The U.S. INS, as it was called at the time, required you to request permission to bring a specific...
by Mary Carey | Jun 17, 2020 | covid, hook-up culture, intimacy
Hookup culture has been the norm for a long time now, but could COVID 19 bring back dating? When my kids were young, we lived in a university town. I had been in a sorority when I was in college, so I contacted the local chapter to see if there was anyone there who...
by Mary Carey | Jun 9, 2020 | discrimination, police, police brutality, racism
Please mark true or false Roller coasters are so much fun. Roller coasters are terrifying. Horror movies are the best movie genre. Horror movies are the worst movie genre. Cilantro is good on everything. Adding cilantro ruins a recipe. Seems silly, doesn’t it? There...
by Mary Carey | Jun 4, 2020 | church, discrimination, empathy, faith, racism, Redemption
“What if our racial problems lie with white people, and what if the white church could be a leader in addressing them?” Why am I calling out white churches? They are an institution with the power of God behind them, but too often, when it comes to...