A Long, Long Way from Home
January 25th, 2022 | by Anna Villegas
You understand that what displaces you from full citizenship on the earth is the loss of an attachment you never had
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She Needs Me
October 26th, 2021 | by Margaret MacInnis
I was the reason my father was alive, I’d heard most of my childhood. Following his suicide, I wondered what had changed, wondered how I had failed him
One More Forgiveness
July 27th, 2021 | by Tiffany Graham Charkosky
This call from my son annoyed me; I’d been gone less than one hour out of the past 5,760 hours. "Mom. The tree fell on our house."
FOURTEEN
May 6th, 2021 | by Leslie Lindsay
For our youngest daughter’s fourteenth birthday, my husband and I gave her a hard-cover Mediterranean-blue Samsonite with wheels. Also, a
The Strength of Surrender
April 27th, 2021 | by Megan Hanlon
Did a case worker visit my mother's house, sit with her at the same oak breakfast table where I had eaten countless Pop Tarts and watch while she signed paperwork allowing strangers to take guardianship of me
Navigating Loss, with Tea and Empathy
April 21st, 2021 | by Jenna Devany Waters
She packed her things while I was out of town, disappeared without a word. I ordered a frenzy of furniture online to spare my children
A Letter to My Never-To-Be-Conceived Third Child
March 18th, 2021 | by Tiffany Graham Charkosky
I think of the possibilities we tamped down because we sought to eliminate our biggest fears
How Families Change
December 8th, 2020 | by Esther Cohen
I knew it would be in a city, and I wanted my friends to be unfamiliar and different. Why are some people drawn to what is familiar and others of us the opposite
“Tell It to Me Straight”: An Adoption Story Across Borders
July 29th, 2020 | by Cheryl Klein
"It was difficult because I was never officially] adopted. I was no one, and I was never registered."
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
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