One China, Two Korea

November 14, 2007, 9:01 pm
Beyond the Lion Dance

By Jeff Gammage

Jin Yu is 7 now, and lately she’s been telling me she wants to go and visit her nannies, the women who cared for her at the orphanage in China.

Not so much for herself, she says, but for them. Because she is sure they must miss her and wonder how she’s doing.

I promise we will try to go. More

November 13, 2007, 8:01 pm
Who Are You Also Known As?

By Hollee McGinnis

Like many adopted people I never had a simple answer to the question, “Where did I come from?” For most people raised by their biological parents, this question can be answered by simply gazing at their parent’s face. There in the turn of a nose and the curve of the eye they are reminded of where they came from. bounded by blood, a part of a human continuum passed from mother to daughter, from father to son. More