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Final Round of the Limerick Chick Contest. VOTE!

2010-03-13T07:00:00.006-07:00

Who'll be The Limerick Chick? You readers get to help pick We have the top three They're brilliant, you see Such an homage to Saint Pat-er-ick The blogosphere has winnowed 30 entries to 8. Here are our finalists. Vote for your favorite by 8 pm Tuesday night (March 16, MST). The winner will be announced on St Patrick's Day. Congratulations to these finalists:

Show & Tell: My view

2010-03-10T17:00:00.000-07:00

Earlier this week I posted about The View. Now, for Show & Tell, I'm posting MY view: Day Evening I'm in St Pete Beach, FL, for a work meeting* I attend each Spring. Yes, it's been sun-derful. And one-derful. Beautiful and warm and wonderful as it has been, by the time this posts, I'll be on my way home to the truly beautiful and cozy and wonderful. * I love my job. See the cool stuff my

Limerick Chick Voting Round 3

2010-03-09T19:00:00.002-07:00

Below is the last of three sets of entries in the 2010 Limerick Chick Contest. Find out the top two limericks from Flight 2 that will advance to the final round, below. Poll is on the upper-right sidebar ===> Thirty poems came in under the wire Five lines each has to inspire They mention blog friends The fun never ends Of reading them, I do not tire. Because of the large number of entries, we

Flow (as in Aunt) comes to The View

2010-03-08T18:10:00.004-07:00

This is my swan song, my last missive as brand ambassador for The View. I shall hang up my tiara and blue sash until the next time duty calls. Check out the guests and topics for the coming days: a bodily function, a former governor, Captain Fantastic, a dancing celebrity. This week on The View Tuesday: Elissa Stein and Susan Kim talk with the ladies about their book, Flow: The Cultural Story

Perfect Moment Monday: Meeting my perfect moment doppelganger

2010-03-07T20:00:00.007-07:00

Here to vote in the Limerick Chick Contest? ~~~~~ Perfect Moment Monday is about noticing a perfect moment rather than creating one. Perfect moments can be momentous or ordinary or somewhere in between. Once a week we engage in mindfulness about something that is right with our world. Everyone is welcome to join. Details on how to participate are at the bottom of this post, complete with

Crystal's debut on MomTV (and she ROCKS it!)

2010-03-06T08:00:00.003-07:00

Here to vote in the Limerick Chick Contest? ~~~~~ Tessa's first mom, Crystal, joined me on Adoption Angles last week on MomTV. Some of you participated in the live webcast and plied us with the most important things to get us through the hour. No, not glasses of wine. Questions! Thanks for keeping our conversation moving by asking us the fantastic questions you did. And thanks to Melissa of

Limerick Chick Voting: Round 2

2010-03-05T10:00:00.001-07:00

Below is the second of three sets of entries in the 2010 Limerick Chick Contest. Find out the top two three limericks from Flight 1 that will advance to the final round, below. Poll is on the upper-right sidebar ===> Thirty poems came in under the wire Five lines each has to inspire They mention blog friends The fun never ends Of reading them, I do not tire. Because of the large number of

Show & Tell: Ones

2010-03-03T17:00:00.006-07:00

Melissa says, "Show and Tell is wasted on elementary schoolers...This is Show and Tell 2.0." Here's my entry this week. I don't know why I pay attention to such phenomenon (and block traffic to document it), but I do. And believe it or not, Bruce Springsteen's Born to Run was on the radio as the odometer clicked over. As an aside, come on over to Adoption Angles on MomTV in 2 hours (7 pm

Round One of Limerick Chick Voting

2010-03-02T12:08:00.012-07:00

Belly on up to the voting booth for the 2010 Limerick Chick Contest. Poll is on the upper-right sidebar ===> Thirty poems came in under the wire Five lines each has to inspire They mention blog friends The fun never ends Of reading them, I do not tire. Because of the large number of entries, we'll have three flights. Below you'll find the 10 entries for the first set. Vote for your favorite

Week 3 of my ambassadorship

2010-03-01T14:56:00.004-07:00

...and STILL I haven't attended any state dinners! I'm in the 3rd of my 4-week gig as Brand Ambassador for ABC's The View. My duties are to give you a sneak peek at this week's topics, and to get feedback about the show to the producers. Thanks to all who shared their thoughts on the subject of infertility, which was covered last week. The episode, which featured Bill and Giuliana Rancic, as

Perfect Moment Monday: I gotta feeling

2010-02-28T20:00:00.003-07:00

Perfect Moment Monday is about noticing a perfect moment rather than creating one. Perfect moments can be momentous or ordinary or somewhere in between. Once a week we engage in mindfulness about something that is right with our world. Everyone is welcome to join. Details on how to participate are at the bottom of this post, complete with bloggy bling. Please visit the links of the

Here I come to save the day

2010-02-26T07:00:00.005-07:00

As part of our post-adoption homestudy nine years ago, our agency required us to attend classes in Infant & Child CPR and to submit our certificate of completion for our file. At the time, doing so seemed like just another step in a looooooong series of hurdles to become parents. And like the other hurdles, I came at it and jumped over it, doing what was required to the best of my ability. Then

Show & Tell: Limerick Chick 2010

2010-02-24T17:00:00.008-07:00

**Ladies and Leprechauns!** I hereby open the Limerick Chick Contest for 2010! Valentine's Day has passed, and that means it's time for all things green and Irish. And what could be more Irish than wordplay that is eponymous with a county in Ireland? Erica of ParenthoodForMe won in 2009 I once was scared of the gyno Now I'll drop my pants for a rhino When bad times are worse There's blogs

The View addresses infertility this week

2010-02-23T07:00:00.004-07:00

Note: there's a question for you toward the end of this post. Thanks for all your comments on last week's announcement of my ambassadorship for The View. I don't know if the Powers-That-Be are reading, or how representative they might think that readers of this little ol' blog might be of their viewing universe, but they really should pay attention. We're a smart bunch. This week on The View:

Perfect Moment Monday: Jab/Cross

2010-02-21T20:00:00.000-07:00

Swimming Up the Sun

2010-02-19T07:00:00.004-07:00

One of the reasons I originally embraced open adoption for my at-that-point-hypothetical children was that I wanted to avoid the search and reunion that they might one day decide to pursue. Search and reunion sounded unappealing all the way around. For my children -- finding and meeting as strangers the people who are so intimately integral to their lives. For me -- dealing with my own feelings

The View -- not on Clomid

2010-02-16T07:00:00.002-07:00

When Melissa, Pamela and I spoke as infertility panelists at BlogHer08, I joked that we were like The View -- on Clomid. Well, two years later I get to be a Brand Ambassador for The View. NOT on Clomid. I mean, I'm not on it, Whoopi and Joy aren't on it, I bet Sherri and Elizabeth aren't on it, and you can bet Barbara isn't on it. See that new badge I have, down

Perfect Moment Monday: Joie de vivre

2010-02-14T20:00:00.007-07:00

Show & Tell: Hallooo, Red Roques!

2010-02-10T17:00:00.001-07:00

Whenever we have out of town guests, we take them to nearby Red Rocks amphitheater, climb down to the stage and pretend we are British rock stars. We took visitors there recently and I took a couple of non-amphitheater photos of these breathtakingly beautiful geologic formations: And for some context for the title of this post, here ya go: See the cool stuff my classmates are showing and

Perfect Moment Monday: HE WENT TO JARED'S

2010-02-07T20:00:00.001-07:00

Adoption Angles: My bling and my John Travolta impression

2010-02-05T07:00:00.003-07:00

My apologies if you don't have an hour, because watching this video is the only way the title is going to make sense to you. This week I was the guest on Melissa's Adoption Angles. We played to a large audience (wow, Melissa, well done!) which was delightfully involved and curious about creating a child-centered open adoption. We had sound difficulties for the first 15 minutes, which was when I

Show & Tell: Science project

2010-02-03T17:00:00.002-07:00

Subtitle: How I ended up on the N0Fly List. Reed, Grade 1, had his first Minds at Work Exhibition. It was 99% self-directed (I insisted he change his focus from "weapons" to "military weapons") and 99% completed by Reed himself (I wrote the answers he gathered through an interview with his uncle so he could copy them; I googled for images). He was to choose a topic and run with it, resulting in

Tune in Wednesday; I'm on MomTV

2010-02-02T19:29:00.000-07:00

I'm going to be on Adoption Angles Wednesday evening (tomorrow!) at 7 pm MST (that's 9 pm to you east coasters, 6 pm to you west coasters, and 8 pm to you centralites). Host Melissa has told me all I need is a webcam and a Merlot. I'm all set as far as she's concerned, but I also think I'd better come up with something to say. My topic is open adoption. Is there anything specific you'd like me

Perfect Moment Monday: Good hair day

2010-01-31T20:00:00.009-07:00

Answer me this #14

2010-01-30T08:00:00.003-07:00

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