Happy Pride Month! June is the month that the LGBT+ community gets to celebrate the freedom to be themselves. Even while equal rights are being fought for in regards to race in our country right now, this is a...
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What, you ask?
Pretty much all the diversity you could ask for.
I love when I tell people about my alternative family. It usually starts with something about how my mom and her wife live in Florida and...
February is Black History month and while I am a big advocate in celebrating all types of diversity year-round, there are some great opportunities this month to dig into African American history and culture.
Black History Month Events
The Children’s Theater of...
"Tolerance is an act of humanity, which we must nurture and enact each in our own lives every day, to rejoice in the diversity that makes us strong and the values that bring us together." - UNESCO Director-General Audrey...
Being an LGBTQI ally is something that I wish I didn’t have to announce that I am. Instead, I wish it was the norm. And while it’s not something that I think I NEED to explain, to those who...
I feel like nature has helped me teach my daughter a lot of things about the world, and I believe it can help teach us adults some things as well.
There are three main things I have found it teaches:...
Husband: “I spy with my little eye something that is brown!”
Daughter: Looks around the room carefully and then at him. “You! You brown! Brown, brown, brown!”
Husband: “You’re right! I am brown, but that’s not what I was looking at....
So, does everyone know what a "gotcha day" is? This is the day that a family adopted their son or daughter and it becomes that family's annual celebration of the adoption. Kind of like an extra birthday, really.
Gotcha day...
When I was in 5th grade, my school took an overnight trip down to Key Largo where we stayed in bunks at a state park and learned about marine life. One day, our class was divided into small groups...
Culture Shock
When my daughter was about three, she suddenly asked me for chopsticks.
Being that she was adopted from Asia, I was delighted that she was finally showing some interest in her birth culture. I immediately went to the kitchen...
In + Around Cincinnati
Bloom :: An Event for Moms! {2024}
Bloom is an event for new and expecting moms, foster moms, and adoptive moms (recommended for any mom up to toddler age!), and other...
