The (Sometimes) Ugly Politics of Adoptee Rights When the sole political strategy is the purity of an adoptee's right to a birth certificate and nothing else, compromise and nuance is obviously impossible. More
Our Mothers Are Secretly Dying Obtaining an original certificate of live birth should not come with the tragic discovery that your mother has already been issued a certificate of death. More
The Contents of My Pockets It's remarkable what a fistful of objects, pulled from pockets on any given day, can tell us about how we've been living, what we've been doing, and what the objects may represent of the past and foretell of the future. More
Letter to My Four Friends as I Turn 50 I’m turning 50. I have given it much thought, most of which can be summed up in two talking points. More
Goodbye, LinkedIn, You Were Useless and Boring I deleted LinkedIn because it was boring and useless and increasingly annoying. I’m actually surprised I let it hang around with me for so long. More
