Month: August 2026

Author Reading – RELATIVE STRANGERS – Trident Bookstore and Cafe

I’m so excited to be invited to do a reading of my essay “Coming Home” in the new anthology Relative Strangers: Inheritance, Identity, and the Meaning of Kinship, edited by B.K. Jackson (2026 ELJ Editions, Ltd.). I am one of twenty-eight authors.  We write about  experiences being a product of family secrets, perhaps because of […]

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In Conversation – with Sara Easterly. Relative Strangers: Inheritance, Identity, and the Meaning of Kinship

As you probably know, child adoption has been my life’s work for the past three or more decades.  Recently, I was invited to submit a chapter for the anthology RELATIVE STRANGERS: Inheritance, Identity, and the Meaning of Kinship, edited by B.K. Jackson, titled “Coming Home.”  Written in 2nd person, the essay detailed what it was like […]

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