Adoptee Life

My experiences as an adoptee who searched for and found my birth family and general information about adoptee rights and stories.

Home: Visiting and Returning

Home: Visiting and Returning

Returning home to old routines certainly has its comfort. I know where everything is in the kitchen and move about pulling out dishes and utensils without pause.  I go back to my morning routine of grinding up coffee beans, the hand grinder clicking away as my hands and shoulders get into the workout. I measure…

Family Roots and Ancestry

Family Roots and Ancestry

“The Heroine’s Journey for these times is a journey out of the Wasteland. Each of us has our own unique set of stories to tell…  Telling those stories helps us to understand ourselves — not just the place that we’ve come from, but where we might now be heading.” ~ Sharon Black, “If Women Rose Rooted”…