We are all very happy.

The results from the biopsy are not in yet. She has an appointment with the oncologist on Monday.

This is the story of how my beautiful sister was conceived. My bio-mom was dating (or was she just sleeping with?) an Arabic man.  She got him wound up, got him lusting for sex, got him not respecting her, and found herself being almost raped on her own bathroom floor. So her diary says....  read more

My third visit with my bio-mom was my last visit (see first visit and second visit).  We had some good times.  We were more like sisters than mother-and-daughter.  It was the 4th of July and it was just the two of us.  Her husband Jack had gone back into the psychiatric war...  read more

My first visit with my bio-mom had ended in disaster (see The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly).  She’d cast me out of her home when I’d rejected her claim of me as her daughter.  To me, I was her daughter only by blood.  A couple of years passed before I decided to try anot...  read more

When I first started hanging out with my biological mom as an adult, I really enjoyed her company, despite the fact that I’d been told all my life that she’d abused me.  Her husband Jack, who she fell in love with in a psychiatric ward where they were both patients, was cool, ...  read more

My mother is a very private person, so this story will be short.  It was 1938 when she was born into a loving, well-off family in Ohio.  Soon after, she was given a baby brother. Her mother was a music teacher, and her father was an Army doctor.  He spent some time in Germany du...  read more

It was under a weeping willow tree, by a lake.  The guest list was short; only a small set of beloved family and friends.  I was there.  I didn’t really understand what was going on.  I was in the room as my parents dressed.  I had already lived for a month with m...  read more

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I was born at about 6am.  My mom still complains about the fact that I kept her up all night.  The first of a lifetime of sleepless nights, she says.  Between my "karate action" when I insisted on sleeping in her bed, to nightmares and illnesses, I kept my mom up for the ...  read more