The Phone Call

I look at her, and see me. I look at me, and see her.

I think I finally found you!!

And in 28 minutes my whole life changed...

‘I’m trying to find my sister’

Hello Jolene!  I am searching for some lost lost family!

My Sometimes Sadness

The way sadness works is one of the strange riddles of the world. If you are stricken with a sadness, you may feel as if you have been set aflame, not only because of the enormous pain, but also because your sadness may spread over your life, like smoke from an enormous fire. - Lemony...

I am on Facebook!

For any of you who want to interact, I am also on Facebook! Click this link and it will take you to my Lost and Found Facebook page! Thanks so much for your support and encouragement!

Chaos

Today, the words don't come to me easily. I strain to find a few that I know how to string together. This morning my thoughts are scattered in bits and pieces on the floor. I wish I was the 'yesterday me'. The yesterday version of myself felt so put together. I was the 'take-it-as-it comes...

It’s not all Unicorns and Sunbeams

'You are nothing but a bastard!' I will remember those six words for the rest of my life. Before that day, I never knew what that word meant. I don't think I had ever heard it before. The diatribe that followed gave that first statement some meaning, but I still needed to ask what it...

I Always Knew…

It is a question I get all the time. 'So when did you actually find out you were adopted?!' I realize that, for some, there is this momentous occasion where you are told that you were adopted. I couldn't imagine the shock and disbelief! I have heard so many stories in this regard, and none...

Choices

Life is a matter of choices, and every choice you make makes you.. - John C. Maxwell Choice. Choose. Chosen. Those are very powerful words. Those words have been a defining factor in my journey through every part of my life. It is not just the choices I have made for myself that have paved...

It Takes a Village

"The child who is not embraced by the village will burn it down to feel its warmth.” - African proverb You know how they say that it takes a village to raise a child? It also takes a village to adopt a child! The older I have gotten, the more I have come to appreciate...