foster parent

You sit up straight in the hard plastic chairs in the cold conference room waiting to meet your potential new foster daughter, absently rubbing your knuckles raw with your thumb.…

Image Credit: Irina Iriser  For J   I.   when we leave you for the last time right away, we forget the look on your face, for fear of burning…

Image Credit: Emma Margraf   I sat in a small and dirty conference room with a young mother and her lawyer for hours before she decided to sign away her…

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…