Role Reboot

How Adopting Children Changed My Friendships

In our late 40s, my husband and I adopted two boys. We knew our lives would be different, but we didn’t expect our friendships to change so drastically. I’m not shy but I’m an introvert. I like other humans but I have a limited tolerance for “peopling”—you know, cocktail parties, wedding receptions, any place where […]

If You’re Considering Fostering A Child, First Consider This

This originally appeared on The Manifest-Station. Republished here with permission. I realized that I didn’t want a child for the rest of his or her life, I wanted a child to take away my loneliness, my emptiness…for a month or two. He was a spiritual advisor/therapist of sorts. More like a healer/shaman. I had known […]