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The following column appeared in The Herald-Sun on Nov. 16, 2013:
My friend Colin – another adoptive parent – asked over lunch last week whether I felt like a dad now.
“Has it really sunk in?”
It’s been nearly six months since Catherine and I adopted John Michael in Asheville and brought him home to Durham.
The answer should’ve been an emphatic “Yes.” But as I thought about it, I grew less certain.
This article appeared in The Herald-Sun in 2012:
By Wes Platt
Jackie Tobias leads the way, walkie-talkie in hand, down the stairs and through the corridors of Riverside High School.
On a recent morning, the nearly 1,750 students are swarming through the halls of this Durham public school between classes, although some linger in pairs and trios, talking together or listening to iPods with their white earbud cords dangling. They’ve got about five minutes to reach their next class.
“Keep moving,” Tobias urges, firm but not impatient. She’s smiling. “If they’re not moving, they’ll never get where they’re going on time.”
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This column appeared in The Herald-Sun in 2013:
Colleen Kilsheimer once thought her son Stephen, born with Down Syndrome, never would know how to spell his own last name or slide his arms into the sleeves of a coat to bundle himself up against the St. Louis winter.
But he surprised her.
He could spell his last name just fine.
And, at 4 years old, he spread his coat out on the floor before putting it on.
“I thought I would cry,” she said. “That was such a treat.”