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Passport to Parenting

Retired Columns

From “Life in the Sandwich” to “Special Needs Mama” to “Zen and the Art of Child Maintenance”—they’re all here for you to explore.

Into the Woods

“The wait can be very difficult,” our Boston social worker said to us more than a year ago. “But when it comes to adoption, A + B + C =…

Passport to Parenting | December 2006 | By Jessica Berger Gross


Angelina and Me

Back when I was pregnant — briefly, for eight short weeks, three years ago — I holed up in bed in the evenings, eating egg salad on whole-wheat sandwiches, and…

Passport to Parenting | November 2006 | By Jessica Berger Gross


The Joys of Paperwork

“Here’s something you can do,” said our social worker, a woman whose own (now teenage) children were adopted from India, and who knows first-hand how hard it can be to…

Passport to Parenting | September 2006 | By Jessica Berger Gross


The Waiting Game

We’ve been at the top of our adoption agency’s waiting list for weeks and weeks. Still, this time of waiting has been mostly, and surprisingly, happy. When I started trying…

Passport to Parenting | July 2006 | By Jessica Berger Gross


Meeting Anna

Last Friday, I took the T to South Station to meet a 12:15 bus from Northampton. I’d selected my outfit as carefully as I would on a first date. The…

Passport to Parenting | May 2006 | By Jessica Berger Gross


Hurry Up and Wait

After returning from India into the bleakness of a New England winter, the adoption felt farther away than ever. On the worst days, I found myself starting to sink into…

Passport to Parenting | April 2006 | By Jessica Berger Gross


Dispatch from India

I was supposed to be writing this column from an Internet café in Mumbai last week, but instead I was stuck in my hotel room, watching Indian CNN and old…

Passport to Parenting | January 2006 | By Jessica Berger Gross


Second Thoughts

I’m more than a little embarrassed to admit this, but from the moment I started dating my husband, Neil, I was dying for him to ask me to marry him.…

Passport to Parenting | December 2005 | By Jessica Berger Gross


Passport to Parenthood

I made the announcement late last summer on vacation, sitting on the porch of a rented 19th-century farmhouse with friends on a small, secluded island in Maine, a wine glass…

Passport to Parenting | October 2005 | By Jessica Berger Gross


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