If the pandemic were a movie, it wouldn’t make any sense.

I was just fine before. Struggling, but fine. Now I’m in shock, and my brain feels murky and sticky. Now I feel like I’m living in a fog.

I can’t focus.

A woman emailed me recently because her boyfriend had broken up with her and she was hoping it was because he was adopted.

I am in HEAVEN and it’s all because of an app I found for people with I.B.S. I don’t even know if I officially have I.B.S., but after a free week-long trial and then a $60ish payment, I officially have the Nerva app.

Motherhunger is so expensive.

Why do we teach our kids sex ed before we teach them self love?

The reason why you would tell your story when you are afraid you will lose those you love when they read it is so you will lose them.

Oh, dear, sweet man. My heart goes out to you and your daughter. Living in and with a relinquished/adopted body is so painful and confusing.

When you show yourself to people who don’t get you, who don’t help you feel seen, appreciated, loved or understood, the tendency can be to turtle and hide. But what if you just keep at it until you find the people who do get it? What if that’s your life’s work? To be you?

If the people you know don’t like your stories, find new people and/or take a storytelling class to find out if you are an unskilled storyteller and need to brush up on your techniques.

I want to tell you about the time I was on Haley Radke’s podcast, Adoptees On. Actually, I don’t want to tell you about it. Anne Heffron wants me to tell you about it because she thinks this weird shame spiral that I went into after telling my story in such a public way is an experience that other adoptees can relate to and learn from. I don’t want to even think about, much less talk about it, but I’m trying to learn from it, so here goes.