• What Happens Now?

    November 10, 2024

      What happens when the proverbial dust has settled on an NPE* discovery? The quick answer is that you live with it. We can all agree what…

  • Cousin Kate

    May 19, 2024

    This is my NPE story of discovering in 2015 that my Dad was not my biological Dad. If you’d like to follow along, I encourage you to…

  • A New Medical History

    April 30, 2024

      I had a doctor’s appointment yesterday with a new eye doctor. I was nervous. He is a specialist. Nine years ago, at age 50, when I…

  • Saying it out loud

    April 15, 2024

      “I fully expect you to say no,” my fellow *NPE friend Bill Griffeth wrote to me in a Twitter message in the fall of 2018. What…

  • Losing a Tree

    April 2, 2024

    For several years after I found out I wasn’t my Dad’s biological daughter, I couldn’t even look at his tree anymore. It was literally a full stop. …