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“It’s as though I were living at last in my eyes, as I have always dreamed of doing, and I think then I know why I’ve come here: to see, and so to go out against new things—oh god how easily—like air in a breeze. It’s true there are moments—foolish moments, ecstasy on a tree stump—when I’m all but gone, scattered I like to think like seed…”

William Gass, In the Heart of the Heart of the Country

(Photo: Brad Ewell)

Anne Heffron 7/8/21 Anne Heffron 7/8/21

A 22-Year Old Russian Adoptee Writes to Her Birth Mother -- Guest Blog Post by Anya Rahn

Hey, Mom, if you are listening I just wanted to talk to you.

Anne Heffron 6/14/21 Anne Heffron 6/14/21

How to Eat Half an Ice Cream Sandwich

This story has no moral or point. It’s just a story about what I did with my ice cream sandwich. I’m not in grade school anymore, so I can write whatever I please.

Anne Heffron 5/26/21 Anne Heffron 5/26/21

An Argument as to Why You Should Tell Your Story--(And a Shameless Plug for My Book)--Guest Blog Post by Kristen Steinhilber

“You Don’t Look Adopted” was just what I needed to believe in my ability to stay the course. To tell my own story like it is with only myself in mind.

Anne Heffron 5/1/21 Anne Heffron 5/1/21

Flying Over My Life--Why This Did Not Earn Me A's in School

I used to have no idea why I could not focus consistently in school.

Anne Heffron 4/23/21 Anne Heffron 4/23/21

What if Your Body Doesn't Know Hunger or Fullness?

I read recently that the infant’s body discovers hunger when it has a feeling that is addressed when the mother feeds it

Anne Heffron 4/5/21 Anne Heffron 4/5/21

Weird

When Alfonso Cuarón wanted to make a movie about being alone, he came up with the idea of putting his character out into space, unmoored, tethered to nothing.

Anne Heffron 4/5/21 Anne Heffron 4/5/21

From Flourish Class -- Guest Blog Post by Dawn Conwell Mulkay -- This Life Is Not a Rented Costume

I am not in full ownership of my life. Admitting this is humiliating and it makes me angry.

Anne Heffron 3/20/21 Anne Heffron 3/20/21

The Adoptee Body and Proprioception

I am curious if the trauma associated with losing your mother at birth or soon after affects the body’s ability to know it is there.

Anne Heffron 3/18/21 Anne Heffron 3/18/21

To My Daughter On Her Birthday

On her birthday, my daughter is matching people’s donations with money of her own to help support Asian businesses that are struggling during COVID. It’s easier to think that birthdays are about cake and presents and wishes for untold happinesses. But the truth is that when we are birthed into life we get the whole Pandora’s Box.