Coping with Women's Cancers
All things exist . . . somewhere in the misty, mysterious spiral of time. Five years ago today, August 15, 2009, a Saturday, I met my sister for the first time after a 50-year separation. My Sister’s Story – Adoption & Reunion tells it all. A year later, on that same Saturday, I visited my friend for… Continue reading Life Giveth, Life Taketh Away . . . and It Giveth Again
On September 15, 1959, my sister was born, “died,” and started a new life. On August 12, 2009, she returned to her origins. By that September 2009, the month in which both Vicki Sue’s (on the 15th) and my (on the 24th) birthdays fall, Susan Mary had found her birth family and a part of herself… Continue reading My Sister’s Story – Adoption & Reunion: Epilogue–The Wonders of Sisterhood & Synchronicity
How do you tell your 79-year-old mother that she now has three children–and two more grandchildren—to buy birthday, Christmas, and Chanukah gifts for? To read the full post, please click: My Sister’s Story – Adoption & Reunion: Part 4–Reunion
“And . . . oh my God. You have a mother!” That’s when it hit me: who was going to tell “our” mother?! To read the full post, please click: My Sister’s Story – Adoption & Reunion: Part 3–Communion
After the chills shot through my body, I had just enough time to say, “Oh my God, that’s my sister!” before we were instructed to put away all electronic devices. The plane was taking off. To read the complete post, please click: My Sister’s Story – Adoption & Reunion: Part 2–Recognition
At the tender age of 20 months, I made a decision about my newborn sibling: I didn’t want him. How dare my baby “sister” be a . . . boy! To read the complete post, please click: My Sister’s Story – Adoption & Reunion: Part 1–Adoption
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