Open Cases: When You Can’t Know How It All Turns Out
February 22nd, 2022 | by Cheryl Klein
Years of court dates and appeals stand between us and adoption
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Omicron Echolalia: It’s Kind of Like Last Year, It’s Kind of Not
January 17th, 2022 | by Cheryl Klein
When you reach the front of the line, there is no mobile clinic, just a lone woman in blue scrubs. “The van didn’t show up today,” she says
Onesie, Never Worn: On Miscarried Adoption Dreams
November 8th, 2021 | by Cheryl Klein
Who did I think I was, acting like I was going to have a baby, just because I had a ream of papers and receipts and a promise
“Ew! YOU survived THAT!?”: Author Kimberly Dark on Tools for Talking About Trauma
October 19th, 2021 | by Cheryl Klein
No life unfolds without trauma, or without chances for joy
Love Letter to the Los Angeles Unified School District
August 26th, 2021 | by Cheryl Klein
Asking schools to solve a pandemic is like asking them to solve poverty. We demand both. And damn, schools fight the good fight.
Adoption is Not for the Faint of Heart, or: How I Got Banned from the Comfort Inn
July 8th, 2021 | by Cheryl Klein
If there were a dozen red flags waving brazenly—her urgent need for money, lack of interest in who we were, trouble with the law—that was kind of the point. That was why Courtney was making an adoption plan
Mosaic: Things Lost, Found, and Taken
June 23rd, 2021 | by Cheryl Klein
The family stories hovered like the clouds of dust that were inflaming Cass’ sinuses. Like dust, they’d been there forever, and I never quite saw them
Alva Kims from Cameroon Asks a Question
May 27th, 2021 | by Cheryl Klein
Lovely daughter for adoption, says the caption
Only One Can Cry: Adam Toledo, Subjectivity, and Riding Shotgun
April 23rd, 2021 | by Cheryl Klein
From the back seat, my son's toothbrush blinked in red staccato to let him know how long to brush, and I thought of police cars.
Carriers
March 22nd, 2021 | by Cheryl Klein
Privileged parents are getting a dose of what poor parents have always known: When the system fails, we will be blamed and pitted against each other