Terri Rimmer's Outline

Birthparents After Adoption

I. Dealing With Grief
II. Dealing With Judgments From Others
III. Writing letters, keeping in contact
IV. Visits
V. Milestones and anniversaries
VI. Communications with adoptive parents and family
VII. Outside issues – depression, loss, faith
VIII. Therapy, journaling, scrapbooking
IX. Dealing with birth dad if applicable

Nature Organization Helps With Katrina Effort

By Terri Rimmer Recently 14 Nature Conservancy staff and two volunteers helped out in Mississippi with Hurricane Katrina relief. The country’s wildland fire management resources were mobilized to help with the government’s response. Although their hurricane-related duties didn’t have anything to do with flames their training lent itself well. During the stay in Hattiesburg, MS the team from the Nature Conservancy was able to have housing, transportation, meals, and other needs met. Within the organization the help was orchestrated by Paula Seamon and Sam Lindblom of the agency’s Global Fire Initiative. The team was involved in a variety of activities from clearing timber to helping evacuees. The Initiative helps teach people how fire can be useful and how it can be destructive. According to a press release from nature.org, the Conservancy’s website, the agency and partners have proposed renewed coastal conservation in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. A September release also stated that ...

Shelter From The Sprawl

By Terri Rimmer Once a 1960s trend, co-housing communities offer an eco-friendly alternative to suburbia and are making a comeback. According to co-housing.org, Vermont has a long tradition of village settlements – close-knit communities shaped by a shared sense of destiny and geography. The site states that during the back-to-the-land movement of the 1960s the state was home to a number of well-known, if not infamous, communes. “The long-term impact of that influx is still being debated, but the newcomers of 30 years ago brought with them a set of ideals that has helped to shape a growing sentiment among native Vermonters that is farmland, ridgelines, and basic way of life,” the site states. Today, this communard ideal is echoed by the co-housing movement that has slowly taken root in three Vermont communities with at least two more on the way. Billed as the eco-friendly alternative to the traditional suburban development, co-housing units are generally constructed with green building...

Tim

By Terri Rimmer You, always ready with a smile, helping hand, laughter, jokes. No one, not even your wife, best friend knew of the pain within. Everyone thought you were doing so great. You seemed to be, they say. You'd lost weight, repaired your marriage, strengthened your friendships. Or so it seemed. But one day before one of your son's birthdays, you headed home from work like any other day, stopping off for a detour that would change your life forever and inflict such pain in the hearts of your loved ones still in shock. You told her, "You need to come get the truck" after calling the police, telling them someone was after you. You must have had it planned for months, or so your doctor said. What went through your mind as you drove that road, off the interstate headed for trees? Did you have second thoughts? Did you think what if? Did you think of anyone else? You pulled your truck up under a tree, got out, ending it all. One of your sons with his friend found yo...

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