The Making of a Grownup: Part II
April 10th, 2020 | by Cheryl Klein
I knew we would be sending Wolf into love, but I wanted to send him into peace, too. Or, I wanted him to stay with us
Browsing the "Adoption Stories" Category
Dear Birthmother: The Full Disclosure Edition
November 21st, 2019 | by Cheryl Klein
The reasons you are on that side of the adoption table and we’re on this side are mostly fucked up, not your fault or our achievement
Love and Paperwork Make a Family: Adoption Books for Parents and Kids
July 31st, 2019 | by Cheryl Klein
Adoption is not like a bear raising a bird. It’s like a bear raising a bear it didn’t birth
HOW TO MAKE A FAMILY
October 15th, 2018 | by Lakshmi Iyer
You want a baby. Babies. Your husband agrees, albeit begrudgingly. But month after month your hopes surge and fall. You
Smart Enough
September 6th, 2018 | by Cheryl Klein
Sometime during the lovely, delusional years that C.C. and I daydreamed about having kids, we found ourselves in the apartment
Brown Like a Kiss: Red Poppies, Pink Bear, Brown Mama, White Mommy
May 29th, 2018 | by Cheryl Klein
My son Dash gave up his pacifier recently. That is to say, Mama and I took it from him after
Early and Often: An Adoption Story in Circles
April 24th, 2018 | by Cheryl Klein
My son’s favorite book right now is Babies Come from Airports, a sweet, rhyming story narrated by an adopted child
HIDDEN MOTHER: An Excerpt
January 10th, 2018 | by Laura Larson
In 19th century portrait studios, photographers employed a number of different strategies to stabilize the body during the long exposures
Seven Days in the Stinking Marsh
December 9th, 2017 | by Cheryl Klein
In the swampy, stinking waters of the river Styx – the actively wrathful fight each other viciously on the surface
What Do I Get? (A Primer on Post-Adoption Funk)
March 21st, 2017 | by Alex Behr
I lay across the double bed, the sun filtering through dirty blinds. Measuring my son’s cries from the floor below,