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No glossy brochures here. What you’ll find instead are stories from the road — the hand-drawn maps, the detours nobody warned us about, and the landmarks you only recognize if you’ve lived them.

Think of this as the motel’s Tourist Info rack, minus the coupons for wax museums and chain buffets. Instead, you’ll find essays, reflections, and maybe a little gallows humor — all part of navigating life as one of the biologically bewildered.

Take what you need, leave what doesn’t fit, and check back often. The stack’s always changing.

Some of the first stops you’ll see here come from reflections written over two years, marking our 25th reunion anniversary. We wrote in dialogue — Point A, then Point B — trading perspectives on the same themes. Think of them as postcards back and forth, saved here for fellow travelers who might recognize the landscape.

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Dancing with Fragments

A reunion dance brought unexpected healing and heartbreak. For one adoptee, stepping onto the floor with her biological father unlocked both joy and grief, leaving her to gather the scattered...

Dancing with Fragments

A reunion dance brought unexpected healing and heartbreak. For one adoptee, stepping onto the floor with her biological father unlocked both joy and grief, leaving her to gather the scattered...

Silenced No More: Finding the Words We Were Nev...

For too long, adoptees and birthmothers were told to keep quiet — to accept silence as survival. In this post, Point A and Point B reflect on the weight of...

Silenced No More: Finding the Words We Were Nev...

For too long, adoptees and birthmothers were told to keep quiet — to accept silence as survival. In this post, Point A and Point B reflect on the weight of...

The Myth of Being “Chosen”

Adoption often comes wrapped in comforting mantras like “you were chosen.” But behind that phrase lies both the hope of a parent and the heavy responsibility placed on a child....

The Myth of Being “Chosen”

Adoption often comes wrapped in comforting mantras like “you were chosen.” But behind that phrase lies both the hope of a parent and the heavy responsibility placed on a child....

The Weight of Secrets

A birthmom and an adoptee talk candidly about the lifelong toll of secrecy in adoption—the silence they carried, the truth they needed, and what changed when it was finally spoken....

The Weight of Secrets

A birthmom and an adoptee talk candidly about the lifelong toll of secrecy in adoption—the silence they carried, the truth they needed, and what changed when it was finally spoken....

The Weight of Silence

Silence may be easy for others, but for those living adoption’s truth, it’s a weight carried daily. Both parent and child speak here, breaking open what “for the best” never...

The Weight of Silence

Silence may be easy for others, but for those living adoption’s truth, it’s a weight carried daily. Both parent and child speak here, breaking open what “for the best” never...

Signed Away

Two perspectives on adoption papers—one from a young birth mother forced into silence, and the other from an adoptee living under the weight of a contract they never agreed to....

Signed Away

Two perspectives on adoption papers—one from a young birth mother forced into silence, and the other from an adoptee living under the weight of a contract they never agreed to....