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Becoming: Reading the Room
Read Time: 6 minutes
My adoptive parents' navigations of trauma and abuse offered me my first lessons in managing others.
Learn from my life experience, and get my latest, up-to-the-minute advice.
Archive for: Adoption Series
12/26
Becoming: Christmas Fantasy
Read Time: 6 minutes
I had all the props for a perfect nostalgia play. Would the world join me on stage?
12/11
Becoming: Pushing Back
Read Time: 3 minutes
I wasn't ready to match my father's violence. There were other ways to push back.
12/2
Becoming: Given Up
Read Time: 10 minutes
How being a foster and adopted child engendered expert-level situational awareness.
8/29
Becoming: With Cars, I Felt Strong
Read Time: 4:19 minutes
How the neighborhood "cool kid" showed style and persona buttress confidence from childhood to adulthood.
7/9
Becoming: Protest
Read Time: 03:10 minute
Consequential missed opportunities from our past have a way of nudging us throughout our lives.
6/1
Becoming: Bigotry absorbed
Read Time: 2 minutes
Dad pulled up and, looking at us, rolled down the window. Not saying anything, he nodded and pulled away, cranking... View Article
5/25
Becoming: Dad is dead
Read Time: 4 minutes
“Your father died. Can you come help?” Shaking off sleep, I noticed it was raining. Raining hard. Her voice was... View Article
