When in the Pit BY SHAE LEE on the days you feel invisible/left behind/again precisely those days scoop up your wailing infant selfsecure dignity in the crook of your capable embrace wrangle your…
Voiceless to Boisterous BY JD GLIENNA Previous Next Child Dominated. Externally muted. Trying to hold on. Internally weeping. Sade “Soldier of Love.” Adolescence Lost control. Externally angry. Fighting the entire…
Sucker Punch BY REBECCA COHEN Trigger Warning: Mention of incest/genetic sexual attraction The summer before eighth grade—the summer after mom married the boyfriend who’d moved in six years before—I’d escaped…
Visible Invisibility (aka The Asian American Experience) BY HAIKU KWON Invisibility driving hyper-visibility A strange stranger A foreign intruder An unrelatable alien…
Silence BY MARTHA S. BACHE-WIIG How do you break through a Silence you have been taught does not exist? My two elder siblings were adopted like me, so in our…
Please Hold While We Connect You BY LUCIA BLACKWELL I left home at the age of one hour, give or take. I was given, or taken, from my birth mother,…
The Perfect Eyes BY LORA K. JOY As a little girl I searched for a specific pair of eyes.My adoptive mother’s eyes were not right; they were green and did…
Heart Song BY JULIAN WASHIO-COLLETTE My heart sang the day I realized that I am truly in love with my wife and she is in love with me, that our…
What Sparks Joy? BY HEATHER LEWIS A few years ago, Marie Kondo exploded onto the scene with her five-step method of decluttering. The main point was to only keep that…
FRIENDS IN WRITING BY AUDREY B Yesterday I received a social media message from a virtual friend.“Hi, this is ridiculously short notice, but I am in town, wondering if you'd…