But oh how all of us wish he would talk about this with a therapist, because surviving dad was useless as a father, and it’s so clear that the unresolved trauma of adoption has affected him greatly. Yes, your adoptive mom was a force of nature; AND it’s okay to wonder about your bio parents!

This really resonates. I married someone adopted in the 1960s, as was their sister (from different birth parents, years later). Adoptive mom died in her 50s. Sister sought her birth family out but my spouse has ALWAYS said “my mom was my mom, I always knew adopted, and it would be disloyal.”

TEXT recipes. As in, you know, writing. lol

😊 surprisingly easy! I’ve been baking SD for 20 years and finally got the nerve to try baguettes. Here’s the approach: (sorry that it’s a video. I’m old enough to prefer test recipes. 😉) youtu.be/UYmJVPTugRA?...

If it were only happening in the US, then blaming “the dems” would make more sense. But this is a global phenomenon, which points back to the point made above, that when global dictators subvert the news it works.

So very funereal.

We have already eaten the evidence!

Holy crap— or rather, unholy crap because surely Jesus didn’t foresee any of this— it’s a giant anti-intellectual, revisionist marketing campaign. Scare quotes indeed.

This is Dante-level.

I knew a grandmother who gave a grandson a box full of all different sorts of cool tape for his bday because the mom, her DIL, wouldn’t let him even touch the household supply. Said he “wasted” it on “creations”. No surprise, he grew up to be an engineer. 😆

Love the energy of these encounters! People who are familiar with dementia or brain injury — whether as the affected person, loved one, or caregiver — will resonate with this deeply. So glad I joined this community today and discovered your work.