Summer is here

The lazy days of Summer are on the horizon.  Summer usually means trips to see relatives and family reunions.  Growing up, I loved going to the family reunions.  I had a huge set of aunts and uncles on both sides of my family.  This meant I also had a LOT of cousins. ...
The beginning of wondering

The beginning of wondering

We are adoptees.  We may have grown up always knowing or may have learned about it later in life.  Either way, this idea that we have a alternate identity gives us reason to pause and wonder.  What was my name “before?”  Who are my birth parents?  Where do...