from July 26, 2017 I don’t believe in coincidences. Well, not unless we’re talking two cooks who bring the exact same strawberry chocolate trifle to the potluck dinner. Or best friends buying the same shirt on separate shopping excursions. Those …
Month: January 2018
A Visit to my Hometown
from June 27, 2017 The sun peeks through the trees as I glance about the quiet, old neighborhood in the town where I was born. From across the street, I snap pictures of the house where my mother lived when …
“We knew you came from somewhere.”
from May 9, 2017 As the search for answers behind my doorstep beginnings came to an end, my mom made this rather profound statement, “Well, we knew you came from somewhere.” Of course I did. I had a past before being …
A “Waiting Matters” Sneak Peek!
For all you "Waiting Matters . . . Because YOU Matter" fans and readers who've waited patiently while I pursued other writing adventures, here's a sneak peek at the first 2 books in the "Waiting Matters" series. Coming SOON in …
Mystery solved: The Next Steps . . .
While my parents had years to ponder my “foundling” beginnings, to conjure up scenarios about the who, the when, the why, I have had but a few months to imagine the details surrounding my being left on a doorstep. I have …
The Final Piece of the Adoption Puzzle
from March 10, 2017 Two weeks ago today it happened. A new, very close match popped up on my Ancestry.com DNA results. Admittedly obsessed with checking our results daily, somehow neither my daughter nor I had checked for new matches before 1:15, …
The adoption puzzle pieces fall into place
from November 29, 2016 For the first time in my life, I celebrated my November 14thbirthday with 99% assurance of my birthmother’s identity. Thanks to the DNA testing results from Ancestry.com paired with the expertise and diligence of a kind-hearted …
The mystery unfolds . . .
from November 3, 2016 Most days I don’t think about it at all. It’s just a part of who I am. An accepted part. From a very early age—as long as I can remember—I concluded that whoever gave birth to me couldn’t …
They need a mom
from July 27, 2016 A couple weeks back, as I made the first swath across the front yard with the mower, several young men piled out of a couple of vehicles at the neighbor’s house. Cars continued to arrive, bringing …
Unraveling an adoption mystery
from October 12, 2016 When my daughter tested her DNA with an Ancestry.com, Christmas-gifted kit this past January, it was mostly to uncover her ethnicity and to hopefully add branches to the family tree she’s painstakingly built over the last …
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