For the last day of November's National Adoption Awareness Month, here's an ode especially to new adoptive parents from the ever so relevant, Dr. Seuss: 

I was so pleased to have been invited to contribute to the Social Work License Map's website - Life Lessons My Adopted Children Taught Me:  http://socialworklicensemap.com/life-lessons-my-adopted-children-taught-me/

Here's my piece for the Thirty Portraits of Adoption Series in honor of November's Adoption Awareness Month - Playing Behind the Scenes: Life as a Single Adoptive Father:  http://www.chicagonow.com/portrait-of-an-adoption/2014/11/playing-behind-the-scenes-life-as-a-single-adoptive-father/

Here's part 2, the Christian side of our family life posted on Kveller - My Adopted Son Wants to Be Christian--And I Need to Let Him:  http://www.kveller.com/blog/parenting/my-adopted-son-wants-to-be-christian-and-i-need-to-let-him/

Check out and share my article, The Joys and Challenges of Parenting Older Adopted Children in November's issue of the Adoption Advocate (77):  www.adoptioncouncil.org/files/large/74006f69a8fa720