Articles by Amy Shankland

By AMY SHANKLAND Perfectly Imperfect Thanks to Laura with St. Joseph County, I learned that both of my biological parents were 20 years old and in good physical health when…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…