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Musings of a Middle-aged Matriarch: Finding my tribe
There’s a sea of different people in this world. While everyone is unique and different, there are enough commonalities between us all to...
Heather Lewis


What It Means To Be Asian in America: Recognizing and breaking the cycle of trauma
The rise in hate crimes against the AAPI community has left many of us questioning not just our identity as Asian-Americans, but how we...
Vanessa Nguyen


Artificial Habitat
Growing up, I lived in one of those unremarkable suburban neighborhoods everyone has seen and no one remembers. Two-story houses....
Cynthia Landesberg


Musings of a Middle-aged Matriarch: How do you find joy?
As adoptees, many of us have had to create our own joy. We have to work at joy because it doesn’t come naturally to us. We are too busy...
Heather Lewis


Choosing Parenthood
“I think, maybe, we should talk about starting a family,” my husband said one day, as we sat on the back porch of a winery north of our...
Cynthia Landesberg


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
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