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Storytelling Show Fundraiser for AFFCNY

Join us on Oct 20th in NYC! We're having an Adoption-themed storytelling show to benefit the Adoptive and Foster Family Coalition of New York (AFFCNY). I’m so excited to be working with AFFCNY creating a storytelling show for their 3rd Annual Fall Fundraiser. We'll be in the Grand Theater at the Producer's Club, 358 West 44th Street, NYC. Join us for an adoption-themed storytelling event! The stories are centered around the theme of Adoption and our storytellers are adult adoptees, birth/first parents, and adoptive parents who will be sharing their lived experiences. We just had our first Writers [...]

Love, Hugs, Magic, and DNA

By Every Family's Got One Guest Writer -- Heather Osterman-Davis Ethan, just shy of 2, is thrilled to be on a plane. Outside of that, he has no idea why this trip is such a big deal. He doesn’t yet know that our family is complicated or worry about ownership and identity the way his father and I do. To him the world is simple: love, hugs, and magic. This isn’t a vacation. We’re racing to get to Odessa, Texas, before Jeannie, my friend Eddie’s mother, dies. Jeannie is genetically Ethan’s grandmother, though until now we’ve been reluctant to consider [...]