

Your mother is dead! Your mother is dead! Your mother is dead! ...
Over and over, the three kids taunted me one Summer afternoon. I was 5 years old. I had just been adopted that Spring. I had been living...


I'm in Hawaii Standup Paddle Surfing ...
singing karaoke and “talking story” with my friends. That’s 2 of my “S” activities and it just occurred to me that “talking Story” could...


I'm the Luckiest Girl in the World ...
And I don’t know why. Perhaps I need to change the name of my blog from “How to Life” to something like “I’m Amazed I Got Here Alive and...

You Have to Throw Them All Away ...
was what my adopted mother said as I stood and stared at two large stacks of comic books in the corner of my room. Each stack was well...


My Adoptive Mother Was Really Nice, but ...
I’ve already hinted that my adoptive father, Jack, was a very bad man. My Japanese adoptive mother was quiet and kind. Her father was a...