Topic: Kids / Family

Friday, June 22, 2007 - 06:59 AM

Adam Walsh (Summer 1981)
Polly Klaas (October 1993)
Samanthan Runnion (July 2002)
Jessica Lunsford (February 2005)

In light of the disappearance of little Madeleine McCann from her family vacation in Portugal, I am posting as much info as I can on missing and exploited children. I pray every night she will make it and be returned alive to her parents. But the ordeal she has suffered has certainly been traumatic at the least. As a mother I can only hope that her parents will be given the oportunity to hold her again and help her to heal. I am beyond devastated that abduction, sexual exploitation, murder and abuse of any kind occurs to children in this world. I have never forgotten the stories of Adam Walsh, Polly Klaas, Samantha Runnion and Jessica Lunsford, just a few of so many horrific kidnappings, sexual assaults and deaths. Each one still brings me to tears when I think of what they must have gone through. But I am further traumatized that an adult would willfully commit such inhumanities. I don't feel there's strict enough punishment for child offenders and too many people turn their heads. We need to stand up and demand greater penalties and no leniancy. I don't believe child sex offenders can be "rehabilitated".

Tuesday, May 15, 2007 - 07:22 AM

As a tribute to Mother's Day, I am posting my most favorite poem in the world, written by my mother when I was four years old and my brother was two. Every time I read it my eyes fill up. It is a real-life glimpse into how my beautiful young mother (only 23 at the time) felt about my brother and I. I hang it in my house and read it when I'm feeling disconnected. It brings me right back to where I came from and who I am now as a mother myself.

Though times change, it is a true testament to all mothers past and future:

Sunday, September 24, 2006 - 09:09 PM

This is a poem that I wrote when I was at my grandparents beachhouse in Mystic CT.

Saturday, September 16, 2006 - 11:00 PM

Audrey Hepburn epitomized it. Women used to dress respectfully and took pride in their appearance. I am speechless as to what is happening to our society in general. It's not just women. But that's what I will focus on here as the mother of three future women.