Today is MLK day. As a kid, this wasn’t a day we got off school for (In fact, I’m not sure I ever got this day off from school or work). But we did often take the day to learn about the…

Everywhere I’ve looked people have been talking about end of 2020 and how everyone is hoping we can also put an end to the dumpster fire that was this year. I am guilty of this as well, the f…

I’ve been thinking about what it means to tell my story. Here’s the thing, who I am, what I believe about adoption and how it can be ethical, what I believe about life, family, politics…

As I come towards the end of this month (I only have two more days where I will come to a part in the day and say “I have to write a blog post, what am I going to write about), the point of t…

Okay, I won’t lie, I had no idea what to write about tonight, and its 11pm so I was running out of time to figure it out. I started thinking about what I could write about and I remembered co…

I think one of the questions I get asked by those first hearing my story is if I have regrets. Its not a simple question for me, what are you asking? If I regret dating J in the first place, if I r…

I watched Philomena when it first came out, and today as I sat down to write my blog post and realized I had a few hours until midnight, nothing great to write about and it is Saturday and I’…

I have mixed emotions about Christmas, in general I love having my family around me and its been the time of year that usually happens. I love Christmas cookies, and Christmas movies and winter sno…

Merry Christmas everyone (who celebrates). This year we spent Christmas Eve connecting our whole family together. We planned a zoom call (in three separate locations all in different time zones spa…

I started creating a list last year around this time last year, I decided instead of a New Year’s resolution I would create a list of 40 things to do since I was turning 40 in 2020. I decided…

If there was one thing I could change about adoption and the way it existed today, it would be creating this image that when a child is adopted one set of parents comes in and replaces the original…

I made a decision to travel in this time of COVID and honestly it was a really hard decision for me to make. In the end I decided to make the trip but doing it in the most careful way possible and …

As I mentioned yesterday, today’s book for review is God and Jetfire by Amy Seek. The first time I read Amy’s work was when I read a piece she wrote for Modern Love for the New York Tim…

In hopes of reviewing it on Saturday for the blog, I started re-reading God and Jetfire by Amy Seek last night. Its a different book from the first two I read because its a straight memoir about a …

I’ve been thinking today about the act of meeting someone where they are at. When I was a kid my family had some family traditions around Christmas. Over the years, my immediate family grew a…

In trying to think of things to write about this month, I was trying to figure out if there was a way I could talk about J (G’s biological father) on here. I find it really tricky to talk abo…

This morning I was reminded about Sandy Hook, the tragic killing of 26 people (mostly children) in Newtown, CT that happened 8 years ago. There are a couple of world events that struck me very heav…

So I’ve been watching the Fosters, a show about a family made up of biological and adopted kids (5 kids total, 1 biological, and 2 sets of two sibling sets adopted from foster care). With the…

Moloka’i is a book I happened upon a five or six years ago now, and maybe not the most obvious to read for this sort of review since it isn’t necessarily an adoption book, its a fiction…