Gathering non-identifying information
By AMY SHANKLAND Perfectly Imperfect Thanks to a fantastic babysitting co-op through our church, John and I were able to go out on a date with each other twice a…
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Feeling the pull
By AMY SHANKLAND Perfectly Imperfect Since it took so long to get pregnant the first time, I was eager to try again that following summer when Jonathon was only seven…
Wondering about my heritage
By AMY SHANKLAND Perfectly Imperfect Turns out, John and I did not need to consider adoption after all. God had other plans. A month after attending the pre-adoption class, I…
Choosing adoption as my own path to motherhood?
By AMY SHANKLAND Perfectly Imperfect I only brought up my biological parents to my mother one more time, and this was right after I graduated college. For some reason, she…
Surviving the awkward years
By AMY SHANKLAND Perfectly Imperfect The topic of my adoption didn’t come up very often between my parents and me after that revealing Sunday. I do remember being a preteen…
A difficult conversation
By AMY SHANKLAND Perfectly Imperfect Thank you for the wonderful comments from last week. My adoption and reunion story will be slowly revealed every Friday, just like a television program…
Learning the hard way
By AMY SHANKLAND Perfectly Imperfect I was so touched at the response from last week’s column as I introduced my adoption and reunion story. Troy Dunn himself left a comment…
An adoption & reunion journey
By AMY SHANKLAND Perfectly Imperfect As I shared last week, this column is going in some new directions, one of which will be my adoption and reunion story. I wasn’t…
Odds & ends
By AMY SHANKLAND Perfectly Imperfect I think most newspaper columnists like to have one of these “odds and ends” columns – where we just share brief, multiple stories. Today is…
Moving on
By AMY SHANKLAND Sandwiched Two weeks ago, I was taking clothes out of the dryer and hanging them up or folding them. I began to hum a song that had…