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My Family Secret

When I got the email “Your Ancestry DNA Results Are In” my life changed forever.

Feb 21, 2021

My Family Secret

Feb 21, 2021

Radical Gratitude

On how the darkest times gave me the greatest gifts.

Aug 27, 2021

Radical Gratitude

Aug 27, 2021

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Human Parts

She’s Just Like Me

I met my biological mother after forty-nine years of searching for myself

Aug 14, 2021

She’s Just Like Me

Aug 14, 2021

Beach Day

I wonder if I chose only one moment to go back to, which one it would be? It might be the day Nana took me to the beach.

Aug 6, 2021

Beach Day

Aug 6, 2021

Leaving New Orleans

The rattle of his truck tailpipe faded away down the street. Gone. My hand still shook as I fed my son a spoonful of mashed sweet potato…

Apr 8, 2021

Leaving New Orleans

Apr 8, 2021

Hummingbird

Whether or not you believe in afterlife, one thing I knew for sure was I’d never had a pesky hummingbird come banging against my window.

Apr 3, 2021

Hummingbird

Apr 3, 2021

Hidden, 1987

It was there hidden in the darkness I felt invisible. As my grandmother’s car unexpectedly pulled up in the driveway, I pulled the window…

Jan 29, 2021

Hidden, 1987

Jan 29, 2021

Ancestry Test Results

My DNA test revealed a family secret and solved an existential puzzle

Sep 14, 2020

Ancestry Test Results

Sep 14, 2020

A Family Secret

In June of 2018, I did genetic testing with my doctor using 23andMe. Though the test was an optional part of my physical, I thought it was…

Jul 27, 2020

A Family Secret

Jul 27, 2020

Falling Apart

It probably took a few months to disassemble the house on Shannon Road. There were the bedrooms I knew as my mother’s and aunts’ bedrooms…

Jul 27, 2020

Falling Apart

Jul 27, 2020

Stephanie Dianne Kordan

Stephanie Dianne Kordan

Artist, mother, writer, memoirist. Currently writing a memoir about my unexpected DNA discovery.

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