Mother’s Day: Roe v Wade Edition
It is Friday afternoon and my social media feed is already showing Mother’s Day ads and wishes. I am irked, annoyed and sometimes, downright angry. My mother lives with me. I raise three daughters....
View ArticleNational Adoption Awareness Month – NAAM 2022
Each year as National Adoption Awareness Month (NAAM) rolls around, my feed is filled with opinions, thoughts and notes from people connected to adoption in many different ways. In the past I have been...
View ArticleThe Truth Shall Set You Free
The ring lies on the ledge inside the shower stall. I remember to bring it outside when I am done. I wipe it dry and inspect it in the flickering bathroom light. Teal and silver, it is nondescript. I...
View ArticleWhy Can’t We Talk About The Money? – Adoption Edition
A few days ago, I was in the car with my older girls. I was driving and trying to make conversation. If you have a teen at home, you know these opportunities to talk are precious. Conversation veered...
View ArticleDocumentary Premiere: Love, Chaos, Kin at CAAMFest 2025
The documentary on our family premieres at the CAAMFest on May 11th. The screening is at 2:00 pm at the AMC Kabuki 1 theater in Japantown, San Francisco.
View ArticleLove Chaos Kin – Teaser 2
Wonder what adoption related conversations are like when kids are little?
View ArticleBehind the Camera: Crafting Our Family Story on Film
Have you ever wondered what it is like to be the subject in a documentary? Here's your inside look.
View ArticleWhere Angels Fear To Tread
Gigi and Grandpa E came into our lives in the spring of 2012. They are my older daughters’ birth great grand parents. I know it’s a mouthful. It started with one email that burgeoned into over five...
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