The Nine People You Meet on a Cruise
Unlike the five people you meet in heaven, the nine people you meet on a cruise are people you don’t want to meet. A couple of months ago, I went […]
Category Archives: Reflections
Who Are Millennials?
Prompt: What’s your biggest pet peeve about the way that people write about your generation? Millennials are squandering their money, buying avocado toast, guzzling wine, and putting off adulthood by […]
Unlearning How To Be A Good Person
When I was in late high school and applying to colleges, people would often ask me what I wanted to study or what I thought I might do professionally. As […]
20 Years of KAAN – 2018
Last weekend, I had the opportunity to participate in my fourth Korean American Adoptee and Adoptive Family Network (KAAN) Conference in the last five years. This was the last KAAN […]
The Trauma of Familial Separation
Around the U.S., people have been outraged by the Trump administration’s policy of separating children from their families when detained at the southern border. Our nation’s collective heart broke when […]
Bubbles and Biking and More
My mother spent a lot of time with me when I was younger, but my father also had valuable time with me, teaching me life lessons and how to be […]
Lines: A Theatre Lila Invention ( + Response)
Toward the end of last month, my mother invited me to see a play with her by Theatre Lila called Lines. Theatre Lila is a performing arts group that seeks […]
Ten Names of My First Mother
This Sunday is Mother’s Day, and with this particular holiday comes a barrage of unresolved feelings of grief and loss for many adoptees. I wrote about this last year in a […]
Musings about Language and Loss
by Rachel Rostad – Korean adoptee, writer and poet, former schoolmate, Fulbright Korea I recently took part in an Adoptees Speak project which inspired the following lil musing about language, […]
Travel is Life-Changing; This I Believe
I was cleaning out an old thumb drive and found this short essay I wrote in high school. The assignment was based on the criteria for NPR’s This I Believe […]
Red Thread Broken 