Stereotypes exist because someone decided that the majority of a certain population have something in common. They weren’t just pulled out of thin air, there is (or was) a basis for them.
There is an AA comedian who says that he doesn’t mind all of the bad stereotypes as long as everyone remembers the one that [...]

When I was in High School I had a jacket with my name on it. While at an away game someone almost lured me outside of the game area because he knew my name. He almost convinced me that we knew each other, and at the last minute I realized that he knew my name [...]

There is an interesting story at The Washington Post.
It says that 45% of children under five in the US are a minority. 70% of that 45% is Hispanic.
One in three Americans is now a minority.
We are told that in the Washington area as well as in Miami, Houston, and LA, minorities are now a majority [...]

What is it with clowns and kids? It seems that lots of kids nowadays have this unexplainable terror of clowns.
My daughter saw some in the park and we had to leave. They were doing balloon animals, and I saw all of these kids far away from them freaking because there were clowns present. A few [...]

When our daughter came to us she came with three things: the clothes she was wearing, her birthday, and her name.
That’s it.
To my thinking, we couldn’t completely take her name from her. She has so little that comes from her life before her new family, we didn’t feel it was something we could take from [...]

There is an interesting article in the Boston Globe. It seems that they have noticed that the number of adoptions from China into Massachusetts has led to an overall decline of adoption in their state of about 6%.
They are specifically looking at 2003 and 2004 numbers. We are told that in 2004 there were 2392 [...]

I’ve seen people stress about this way more than they should. Way more.
As a child I was taught to hover in public bathrooms and to never sit on a public toilet. As an adult I still can’t bring myself to do that. I still hover.
So for me the squat toilets were no big deal. They [...]

Am I the only one in tears last night at the end of Desperate Housewives?
My emotions are just not cut out to have a child in my home for a period of time with the possibility of someone changing their mind.
This was not the only reason we chose international adoption, but it was a pretty [...]