It is a club of united human beings coming together to share our experiences and through the accumulation of stories we help one another heal. Today I reach out my hand to you. Let’s embrace the moment because it can pass all too soon. For the moments of hurt shift and then, when we least […] Read more…
NPE
Love Letter to NPEs-Part One
Love Letter to Fellow NPEs (Not-Parent Expected) Dear Friend, We may or may not have ever met but we remain kin. We may not share DNA but we are kin in the sense of sharing a common bond in the discoveries of our histories. The profound feelings of having lost a part of ourselves when […] Read more…
Who’s Your Daddy?-Part Four
THE TRUTH REVEALS ITSELF This behavior ebbed and flowed through the years, but it happened less and less until right before my 46th birthday. Another piece of the puzzle fell into place and opened the doors of my mind to the possibility there was way more to my story than I had been told. At […] Read more…
Who’s Your Daddy?-Part Three
I HAD MY SUSPICIONS Todd and I celebrated holidays, birthdays & other special occasions with the Ballard and Reynolds families. Grandparents were a huge part of our upbringing. It was on one unusual occasion, just after I turned 26 years old, that Dad and I had decided to have dinner alone. We went to one […] Read more…
Who’s Your Daddy?-Part Two
A LITTLE HISTORY I was born August 31, 1963 to Joan Gayle Reynolds Ballard and Billy Bob Ballard. My parents met in high school, got married and had my brother Todd. According to the stories, things were rocky, and they divorced. Approximately a year or so later they remarried and had me. It was just […] Read more…