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Poems
Time Time flies by In the blink of an eye How should I spend my day So many things that I could do But in my bed i just lay Being...
Lauren Kofalt
May 15, 2022


Musings of a Middle-aged Matriarch: Looking exotic sitting at Cracker Barrel
I was adopted into a small farming community with one blinking stop light. For all my life, I was surrounded by people who did not look...
Heather Lewis
May 12, 2022


Dialogues With Adoptees: ‘Vincenzo’ and adoption myth entrenched in Korean society
Reposted from The Korea Times This article is the 25th in a series about Koreans adopted abroad. Apparently, many Koreans never expected...
Dr. Kyung-eun Lee
May 10, 2022


Are You Me? The Noodles That Tie Us
I loved my shirt With three pockets of color Gym shoes Blue shorts And black hair That flopped over My gold-rimmed glasses I was ready...
Samantha Der
May 8, 2022


Dialogues With Adoptees: Secrets of birth — Multiple layers of falsehoods in Korea’s birth documents
Reposted from The Korea Times This article is the 23rd in a series about Koreans adopted abroad. Apparently, many Koreans never expected...
Dr. Kyung-eun Lee
May 3, 2022

Introducing Yalian Li
Yalian Li is a filmmaker currently located in Los Angeles. She completed her Bachelor of Arts degree at Baylor University when she was 19...
OSH
May 1, 2022


Dialogues With Adoptees: Intercountry adoption is about human rights, not charity
Reposted from The Korea Times This article is the 18th in a series about Koreans adopted abroad. Apparently, many Koreans never expected...
Dr. Kyung-eun Lee
Apr 28, 2022


The Strings That Bind Us
I sit at my desk, laptop open, staring at a blank screen. I am supposed to be writing a letter to my 9-year-old son’s birth mother in...
Cynthia Landesberg
Apr 24, 2022


Dialogues With Adoptees: Intercountry adoptions 1985-92 — a numbers game for Korea’s national image
Reposted from The Korea Times This article is the 17th in a series about Koreans adopted abroad. Apparently, many Koreans never expected...
Dr. Kyung-eun Lee
Apr 21, 2022
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