I promised some recipes that can help your kids eat something a little more healthy than pizza or cocoa puffs. I’ll start with angry spinach.
1 pound spinach, stems cut off, washed and slightly dried
2-3 cloves garlic, sliced (not minced)
3 tbsp. olive oil
1 tbsp. sesame oil
3 tbsp. soy sauce (adjust to taste)
1 tbsp. sesame seeds
1 tbsp. [...]
Archive > December 2009
Angry Spinach
New adoptive parent? When feeling out of control, focus on food.
Any of you out there adopt older children who you struggled to get to eat anything that didn’t come handed out a drive-through window in a greasy bag?
I had a multitude of challenges when my daughter finally moved in with me—her anger at leaving her beloved foster parents powering most of them—but the fact that [...]
Hopping Mad
Here’s what Rev. Jason J. McGuire, Executive Director of New Yorkers for Constitutional Freedoms, had to say about the marriage equality vote yesterday in the New York Senate (and no, I’m not linking to those people):
Today’s vote results from the efforts made by a bipartisan, multiracial alliance united in support of the proposition that marriage [...]
Marriage Equality Loses in New York.
We didn’t expect it to pass, but it was hard not to feel hopeful.
Read the New York Times story.
Marriage Equality Debate Happening Now
You stuck at your desks too? Keep posted by checking out the folks’ work at Good As You. They’ve got video of the debate and summaries of the sometimes awesome, sometimes infuriating statements.
The most horrifying so far? Democrat Ruben Diaz calling the debate “treason.”
New York Marriage Equality…
Has anyone else out there been following the news on the awesome blog, Good As You?
Maybe today the New York Senate will vote on the marriage equality bill. Of course, yesterday we thought, maybe today….
You’ll need to follow this story on the web, folks. A brief glance at my pathetic local paper this morning showed [...]
The Beginnings….
Have you ever heard of an “accidental adoption”?
Okay, you’re probably thinking there’s no such thing.
After all, in order to adopt you must do a variety of things that you can hardly do without meaning to. Things like showing caseworkers your home. Leaving your fingerprints at the local police station for posterity. Clearing out the bedroom [...]
