Maddy speaks beautiful Spanish. That’s because she lived in Mexico—in San Miguel de Allende—for 5 yrs as a kid. I try very hard not to speculate about What Could Have Been had my mother simply given me to my father instead of abandoning me to strangers, & I’m usually successful in that regard, but some things are easier to shrug off than others. This thing? Not easy. 😢 #MaddyAndBoots #adoption #AdopteeVoices #AdopteeRightsAreHumanRights

My sister is a high school Spanish teacher, a li’l blue dot of reason in a nightmarishly red state. She’s the only teacher in her school who doesn’t have a US flag hanging in her room—instead, she displays the flags of 21 Spanish speaking countries, & when the school forces kids to recite the Pledge of Allegiance every Monday morning, she tells her students they don’t have to, but if they want to, they can just choose a flag, any flag. I’m proud to be her sister. #MaddyAndBoots

(Her #4 is ice cream, my #4 is garlic naan. So that's where we deviate.) #MaddyAndBoots