Foster Care

Jane and I stood on the stage with the Governor at the annual ceremony for graduating foster youth going to college. There were maybe sixty of us in an auditorium…

My friend Michele’s mother said I could stay with them for four days tops. “That’s it,” she said. Four days. She was moved by my plight, but scared of Mama.…

It began with a photo album. Simple looking, but full of memories of a time buried in the back of my mind—an old wound picked open as I stared at…