Well…I went. I’m glad I did. I didn’t know if I’d attend Aunt *Jane’s funeral until the last minute. Even then, I sat in the church parking lot for a long time before going in. The church was five minutes from my house. I arrived early so my bio siblings wouldn’t see me driving in…
Yesterday, while we were preparing for a huge blizzard that was about to hit Connecticut later that day, my phone rang. It was my new cousin *Claire. I found myself tangled up in some cords I was setting up to charge my two iPads and my laptop in case we lost power, and I missed…
I recently found a photo of my bio grandmother’s sister, Sadie, on Ancestry. I’d never seen her face before. As I looked at it, I realized some doors will always be closed in this *NPE journey. There are questions I can never ask, stories I will never know, and faces of family I’ll never see….
For me, sometimes it feels like I am living in multiple worlds since my NPE* discovery. How differently I share my DNA discovery truth with people is almost like I’m speaking in different languages to each of them. Without realizing it, I self-censor each time I talk about this. When I wrote my letter to…
Since I began wearing makeup when I was about 15 years old, I was never the kind of girl who sat in front of the mirror for any length of time. I didn’t really even know much about putting on makeup. And since there were no YouTube tutorials back in 1980 to watch, I would…
I saw my new biological sister, Donna*, at the Post Office a few months ago. I saw her again a few weeks ago at a program held in the same building where I work. The reality is, she and I live in the same small community. And we will continue to see each other, I’m…