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Adoption Is Trauma. Part 2.

1972. I’m sitting on the padded peeling black leather seat, bumping up and down in the little yellow school bus as it traverses pot holes. My raincoat is translucent, crisscrossed with red plaid, my soft brown curls pulled into pigtails. The bus pulls into the Robin Hill Nursery School parking…

Adoption

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Adoption Is Trauma.
Adoption Is Trauma.
Adoption

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Menopause, Motherhood, And The Orca Whale.

Lessons on love and letting go. 6:40 am. Scrolling the internet, sipping coffee, procrastinating packing. I’m visiting my daughter, 24, now living 3,000 miles away. An amazing weekend together. Laughing, talking, long walks in the park. “How about I stay a little longer?” “I would love that.” So here I…

Menopause

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Menopause, Motherhood, And The Orca Whale.
Menopause, Motherhood, And The Orca Whale.
Menopause

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Raise Good Humans

What I learned when my kids said college wasn’t for them — The other day, I saw this bumper sticker. Raise Good Humans. Crisp white font on a plain black background. Its simplicity stunned me, shuttled me back in time. When she called in tears that autumn day in 2017, my daughter 3,000 miles away, a freshman at a small liberal arts…

Parenting

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Raise Good Humans
Raise Good Humans
Parenting

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Microdosing, Mastodon, and Jonah Hill.

Seeking Peace, Finding Kindness. 2008. I’m 40. I write a short story about my search for my birth mother, how in 1998, after searching for six years — after a social worker said it was impossible— I found her but she was already dead. I write about how finding answers soothed my soul at…

Mental Health

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Microdosing, Mastodon, and Jonah Hill.
Microdosing, Mastodon, and Jonah Hill.
Mental Health

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Thoughts And Ideas

·Jan 22

Pivot Or Die.

On growing older and growing up. The white-haired man with a lined and pocked face told me he used to be a television sitcom director, he said humbly, “you may have heard of some shows” before telling me how a decade ago he collapsed under the pressure and found himself…

This Is Us

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Pivot Or Die.
Pivot Or Die.
This Is Us

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·Oct 14, 2022

A Long Marriage Requires Good Luck. A Healthy Marriage Requires Equity.

This week was my 26th wedding anniversary. Twenty-six years with the same man and my conclusion is this: the success of my marriage comes down to luck. Luck we didn’t want to divorce at the same time, luck the money returned after it ran out, luck the near fatal illnesses…

Marriage

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A Long Marriage Requires Good Luck. A Healthy Marriage Requires Equity.
A Long Marriage Requires Good Luck. A Healthy Marriage Requires Equity.
Marriage

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·Sep 30, 2022

Microdosing Is Healing My Trauma.

Psilocybin is helping me like nothing else has. The thing about microdosing psilocybin is, you don’t get high or trip, there’s no distinct before or after, no sudden euphoria or crashing come down. …

Microdosing

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Microdosing Is Healing My Trauma.
Microdosing Is Healing My Trauma.
Microdosing

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Human Parts

·Sep 21, 2022

Don’t Make Us Choose. A Missive To Adoptive Parents.

The unfair cruelty of secrecy — Exhausted, sweaty, jet-lagged, and anxious, I got off the elevator with no idea where to go so I turned left and wow, there was my mother at the end of the long, antiseptic hallway. …

Adoption

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Don’t Make Us Choose. A Missive To Adoptive Parents.
Don’t Make Us Choose. A Missive To Adoptive Parents.
Adoption

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·Jul 10, 2022

The Power and Purpose of Sharing Our Stories

Silence doesn’t serve us — Okay well, in retrospect, the bottle of pills, the tablets of Tylenol poured out on the yellow formica kitchen table, swallowed slowly, methodically, one by one, was a little misguided. 16. So young, empty, so afraid. …

Feminism

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The Power And Purpose of Sharing Our Stories.
The Power And Purpose of Sharing Our Stories.
Feminism

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·Jun 26, 2022

Make My Mother’s Life Matter By Fighting For Our Daughters.

In memory of the women who had no choice, turn despair into action. My daughter and I, side-by-side on the top bunk, cuddled under soft blankets, hidden by darkness. She was 7, in second grade. Her little brother, my son, was fast asleep on the bunk below us, so we…

Abortion Rights

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Make My Mother’s Life Matter By Fighting For Our Daughters.
Make My Mother’s Life Matter By Fighting For Our Daughters.
Abortion Rights

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Mindy Stern

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Screenwriter. Essayist. Wannabe Novelist. Adoptee. www.themindystern.com

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