In Her Words

For citizens like Courtney Humbaugh (and me), finding  our most basic personal health history means fighting a maze of government laws and regulations.

Orphans, foster kids… ANY adult can get their original birth certificates and the DNA history that goes with it no problem. Not adoptees.

Now Courtney and many other adult adoptees, birth parents and adopting parents are trying to change that old law in our home state of Georgia.

With the vast majority of lawmakers in favor, why is it taking years to get a vote to the floor and the bill to the Governor?

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Colleen makes it sound like I forced her to talk to me on tape. Judge me if you must.

It’s hardest to listen to the women closest to me in my own family. Especially when what they have to say is, “You don’t listen.”

My 28 year old daughter and I talk volleyball , HAIKYU!! (The Japanese anime series on Netflix), backpacking solo in Europe for 100 days, Taylor Swift, and brain science.

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Jamie Weiss was adopted as a child. Now she’s a mother herself. We speak from common personal experience as only adoptees can. Now Jamie and lots of us are asking Georgia lawmakers to treat adopted people the same as foster children, orphans and every other citizen - and give us our original birth certificates. Why is that so hard?

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I met Diana at a retreat for adult adoptees who never really worked on healing the inner wound created by losing your mother at birth. That was almost five years ago. WOW! Have we both come a long way. This is wisdom born of pain. Hint: No shame and no blame. 

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I met Kenya in 2016 when we were in a play together at Spirit Square and a presidential candidate who shall not be named was campaigning in the next theater .

Secret Service. Security. Crazy times.

Kenya Templeton has a GORGEOUS singing voice. A clip from this podcast was featured on WBUR’s HERE AND NOW on NPR.

This is a reprise of our original episode but it’s worth checking out!

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Dr. Octavia Cannon is kind. She’s been personally kind to me. And she’s kind to the women she treats. Unfailingly kind.

Just listen.

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More than 50 years ago, Mary Hopper needed a safe abortion. She found it in Mexico.

She was a Republican… until the Equal Rights Amendment and the Reagan Right ignored women like her. She never went back.

Could the US Supreme Court beholden to you-know-who sink GOP?

A Reprise of our conversation several years back.

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Wendy Hickey relishes her nickname as “Art Mama” by lots of artists who have benefited from Wendy’s tireless support for local art!

But you might not know how Wendy was a bit of a teen rebel who left home at 16. Relax!  It all turns out well.

Wendy combined her years of experience in billboard sales with her love of local artists to create ART POP!

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Kim Alexander grew up in New Orleans, assaulted by her own father and grandfather.

She turned her own life around after Hurricane Katrina and now works with boys and young men to show them a more hopeful future.

Now Kim runs Our Daily Bread Foundation teaching young men to bake bread as an alternative to violence.

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Dealing with an aging parent can be stressful and heartbreaking in the best of times. Add dementia and money problems or a health crisis and it strains families to the breaking point.

Jennifer Szakaly (pronounced Sock-Eye) has decades of experience both personal and professional in precisely this field.

 She helps everyone just take a deep breath. Her company CAREGIVING CORNER can help with options you might not know about.

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