For the first time in over 25 years I've seen a picture of my biological father Mark Jarmel. For the first time in over 25 years I've spoken with him.

Its something I've given considerable thought to for my entire life quite literally. In some ways it was a little anti-climatic. I did a few different seraches on Google and after a call to a ( Read more... )

I spent five hours with my grandfather today. Its been over half a year since I've had such a long "shift' of looking after him.  I don't feel I have the energy to do the full story justice. There were some really hard moments today, but also some really good ones.

The happiness of everything simply falling into place during our outing, like has ( Read more... )

Months flash by in the blink of an eye and stories that are inextricably wrapped up in my life get glossed over online... I was thinking that I never did a proper update concerning all the troubles I had with my grandparents several months ago. For those people I haven't spoken with in a while, an update might be useful on that front.

The drama, as ( Read more... )