“In November of 2015 , we received a call from a very desperate young man named Jonathan, who my husband had been mentoring for the
“A few weeks before my high school graduation (almost 9 years ago), I received some overwhelming and grim news. I had a rare, progressive, and
“I have been told I will be able to find a new normal and a new happiness. The new normal sucks and feels wrong. I
“It’s taken almost 2 years to get to this point and it’s been a roller coaster…so many times getting our hopes up and then recovering
”I wonder if you think about what kind of person I am. I wonder if you question if you made the right choice. I wonder
“It was a mild March afternoon in 1982. As a straight A-B student, it would be a shock to some I was skipping class to
Life Growing Up “I always felt ‘too much.’ My mom couldn’t raise me. I never met my father (still haven’t). My parents were teen drug
“A birth mother’s story begins the moment she finds out she is pregnant, but it never truly ends. For me, this story began in February
“In the summer of 2016, I was pregnant with my second child. The pregnancy with my daughter had been straightforward, so I’d assumed it would
“Where to begin…I had a very depressing, lonely life. When I was born, my biological mother, Jenny L. Pike, called me a monster, because I