Today is Juneteenth.

1. You have the right to the facts of your life.

What would you do if you felt supported and safe?

I got a postcard from my friend Ridghaus yesterday

Last night Janie and I walked the dogs to J.T.’s for soft serve.

I just finished a book called Write or Die, Writing Ideas for Adopted People. Here’s a peek inside.

Hi, I’m Mike and I’m a multiplicity of options addict.

I’ve been thinking about guilt because it’s this month’s topic in the Zoom class Joyce Maguire Pavao and I are leading for a group of adopted people.

I like to think in the megaphone voice which, when I type, is all caps. I like to imagine what it would have been like if, when I was small, I could have talked to those around me in the megaphone voice with the awareness I have now about the things I was struggling with as an adopted person.

One Christmas Eve, I decided that I would bring Mrs. Beasley to the church and put her in the pile of toys on the altar.

Ever since my first retreat to Italy in 2019, I've been dreaming my way back.

We didn’t ask to be born. We didn’t ask our mother’s to give us up. (Or, who knows, maybe we did.) But we’re here.